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Rescue workers search through the rubble of a damaged building for survivors following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV comforts 13 priests from southern Lebanon with a surprise video call from Rome

May 7
Bassem Mroue

Gunmen fire their weapons as men carry the coffins with the bodies of Pierre Mouawad, an official with the anti-Hezbollah Lebanese Forces party, and his wife during their funeral in Yahshush, in Lebanon, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Melkite Catholic bishops express concern over Israeli demolitions in southern Lebanon

May 5
Bassem Mroue

Israeli airstrikes kill 7 in southern Lebanon as a Catholic convent is bulldozed

May 3
Bassem Mroue

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

Pope Leo XIV arrives in Beirut in Lebanon, Nov. 30, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV’s visit highlights Christian resilience in Lebanon despite regional turmoil

Dec 1, 2025
Bassem Mroue,
Associated Press

Bahrain’s Shiites hope pope raises human rights during visit

Nov 2, 2022
Bassem Mroue,
Jon Gambrell, Mariam Fam

Lebanon says Pope Francis will visit crisis-torn country in June

Apr 5, 2022
Bassem Mroue

The judge leading Beirut blast probe: Discreet and defiant

Oct 26, 2021
Sarah El Deeb,
Bassem Mroue

Hezbollah hammered with criticism amid Lebanon’s crises

Sep 1, 2021
Bassem Mroue

Pope Leo XIV closes the extraordinary consistory in the Vatican on June 27, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Premium article: Leo XIV’s second “business” consistory produced few headlines, but that’s by design

Jun 28
Charles Collins

Leo XIV sends new appeal for Venezuela in wake of devastating earthquakes

Jun 28
Crux Now Staff

At close of consistory, pope appeals for victims of Venezuela quake

Jun 28
Crux Now Staff

Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu attends an ECOWAS meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Credit: Olamikan Gbemiga/AP.)

Bishops want kidnapped Nigerian students, teachers returned safely

Jun 27
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo XIV meets with cardinals in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on June 26, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV says war ‘never blessed by God’ as he opens meeting of world’s cardinals

Jun 26
Associated Press

Premium article: JD Vance wants better US-Vatican relations, but is he the man to build the relationship?

Jun 25
Christopher R. Altieri

Pope Leo XIV receives the baseball from the final out of Game 1 of the 2005 World Series from former Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski. (Credit: Pierzynski on X.)

Pope Leo XIV receives World Series baseball from former White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski

Jun 26
Jay Cohen,
Associated Press

At close of consistory, pope appeals for victims of Venezuela quake

Jun 28
Crux Now Staff

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Leo XIV’s second “business” consistory produced few headlines, but that’s by design