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25-year-old Noelia Castillo dies by legal euthanasia in case that drew national spotlight in Spain

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Vatican on April 24, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Catholic cardinal refused entry to Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

Mar 29
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Vatican cardinal’s letter to France and Catholic ‘inside baseball’

Mar 29
Christopher R. Altieri

Sarah Mullally waves as she leaves after the Enthronement Ceremony installing her as archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury, England, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, the first woman ever to lead the Church of England. (Credit: Alastair Grant/AP.)

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2026 may be a turning point in Anglican-Catholic dialogue

Mar 30
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Pope opens Holy Week condemning war waged in Jesus’s name

Mar 29
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People gather outside a hospital where Noelia Castillo, a young Spanish woman, died after winning a long court fight for her right to euthanasia, in Sant Pere de Ribes, Spain, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Credit: Lorena Sopena/Europa Press via AP.)

25-year-old Noelia Castillo dies by legal euthanasia in case that drew national spotlight in Spain

Mar 31
Suman Naishadham,
Associated Press

From left, Luis Arguello, the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Angel Gabilondo, the Ombudsman and Felix Bolanos the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with Parliament after the signing of an agreement to provide redress to victims of time-barred abuse in Madrid, Spain, Monday, March 30, 2026. (Credit: Alberto Ortega/Europa Press via AP.)

Spanish bishops and government sign deal for compensation of church sexual abuse victims

Mar 31
Suman Naishadham,
Associated Press

Penitents of the ‘Pollinita’ brotherhood, dressed in a typical Apostle costumes pose for a picture ahead the Holy Week procession in Cabra, southern Spain, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (Credit: Manu Fernandez/AP.)

Photos show Christians marking Holy Week across the world

Mar 31
Associated Press

Displaced people who fled Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon sit i n tents in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 29, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Iran says its expelled ambassador won’t leave Lebanon as political tensions soar

Mar 31
Kareem Chehayeb,
Associated Press

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Displaced people who fled Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon sit i n tents in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 29, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Iran says its expelled ambassador won’t leave Lebanon as political tensions soar

Mar 31
Kareem Chehayeb,
Associated Press

Israeli soldiers atop an APC in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (Credit: Ariel Schalit/AP.)

Lebanese Christians fear another occupation as Israel threatens to use Gaza tactics in the south

Mar 26
Kareem Chehayeb,
Julia Frankel

Pope Leo XIV holds a moment of prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope prays at site of 2020 Beirut port explosion

Dec 2, 2025
Nicole Winfield,
Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press

A billboard displays an image of Pope Leo XIV, ahead of his upcoming visit to Lebanon, near the grain silos at Beirut's port that were heavily damaged in the massive 2020 explosion as a graffiti in Arabic reading "Victims of the Beirut port explosion" is seen in the foreground, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Pope Leo XIV’s visit rekindles hope in war- and crisis-battered Lebanon

Nov 25, 2025
Kareem Chehayeb,
Abby Sewell, Associated Press

Civil Defence workers inspect the damage after an apartment was hit during an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh in the southern suburb of Beirut, Sunday Nov. 23, 2025. (Credit: Bilal Hussein/AP.)

Days before papal visit to Lebanon, Israel kills senior Hezbollah official in Beirut strike

Nov 24, 2025
Fadi Tawil,
Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV at his General Audience at the Vatican on Aug. 20, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo’s first international trip could be to Lebanon, cardinal says

Aug 21, 2025
Nicole Winfield,
Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press

Clergy, bags of cash set off new sectarian brawl in Lebanon

Aug 3, 2022
Kareem Chehayeb