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Cardinal Pizzaballa says ongoing Middle East conflict stopping regular celebration of Holy Week in Jerusalem

Samy Magdy | Crux

Pope Leo XIV at his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on March 11, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Footnotes and tea leaves: Pope Leo and Amoris Laetitia

Mar 21
Charles Collins

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP.)

Pete Hegseth’s Christian rhetoric draws renewed scrutiny after the US goes to war with Iran

Mar 21
Tiffany Stanley

Pope calls for peace, says Christians ‘cannot remain silent’ before war

Mar 22
Elise Ann Allen

Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, conducts a service at St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (Credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP.)

Patriarch Filaret, who fought for an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church, dies at 97

Mar 22
Peter Smith

The Old City of Jerusalem in the Holy Land. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Cardinal Pizzaballa says ongoing Middle East conflict stopping regular celebration of Holy Week in Jerusalem

Mar 23
Crux Now Staff

Bangladesh Bishops decline government stipend for Catholic clerics

Mar 23
Stephan Uttom Rozario

New laws in two Indian states threaten religious liberty

Mar 23
Nirmala Carvalho

A man holds a sign reading in Arabic "No to dividing Damascus neighborhoods along sectarian lines" in a demonstration against new restrictions limiting alcohol sales mainly to Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, Syria, on March 22, 2026. (Credit: Omar Sanadiki/AP.)

Syrian authorities’ new limits on alcohol sales in Damascus spark backlash

Mar 23
Omar Sanadiki

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A view of a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike, in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, March 16, 2026. (Credit: Bilal Hussein/AP.)

Israel steps up campaign in Lebanon; Iran hits near Church of the Holy Sepulcher

Mar 17
Bassem Mroue,
Jamey Keaten, Samy Magdy

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee poses for a photo during an interview in Jerusalem, Aug. 20, 2025. (Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP.)

US says ambassador’s comments on Israel and the Middle East were taken out of context

Feb 23
Melanie Lidman,
Samy Magdy, Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is seen during an interview in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP.)

US ambassador causes uproar by claiming Israel has a right to much of the Middle East

Feb 22
Sam Mednick,
Samy Magdy, Associated Press

People inspect the site where at least four Palestinians died following the collapse of walls onto tents sheltering displaced people in Gaza City amid rainfall and strong winds, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

Gaza’s living conditions worsen as strong winds and hypothermia kill 5

Jan 14
Wafaa Shurafa,
Samy Magdy, Associated Press

Family struck by grief after it loses 6 in Egypt church fire

Aug 25, 2022
Samy Magdy

Safety concerns after deadly fire rips through Egypt church

Aug 16, 2022
Samy Magdy

Fire at Cairo Coptic church kills 41, including 15 children

Aug 15, 2022
Samy Magdy

Egypt names first-ever Christian head of country’s top court

Feb 9, 2022
Samy Magdy

Egypt executes defrocked monk convicted of abbot’s killing

May 9, 2021
Samy Magdy