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Leo urges Lebanese people to put aside political divisions

by Elise Ann Allen December 2, 2025

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

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

by Bassem Mroue and Associated Press December 1, 2025

Pope Leo XIV greets Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi at the Vatican on October 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Maronite cardinal says Pope Leo visiting Lebanon to promote peace

by Crux Now Staff November 30, 2025November 30, 2025

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stand amid the destruction left by Israeli strikes north of Gaza City Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

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Israel says it has received another set of human remains from militants in Gaza

by Wafaa Shurafa and Associated Press November 26, 2025

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)

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

by Kareem Chehayeb, Abby Sewell and Associated Press November 25, 2025

The sun sets behind the dome of the Melkite Greek Catholic Basilica of Saint Paul in Harissa, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

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Photos show Christian landmarks in Lebanon ahead of the pope’s visit

by Hassan Ammar and Associated Press November 24, 2025

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.)

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

by Fadi Tawil, Kareem Chehayeb and Associated Press November 24, 2025

Smoke rises from scorched cars in a scrapyard that was set ablaze the night before by who local residents alleged were Israeli settlers in the town of Huwara near the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (Credit: Nasser Nasser/AP.)

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Netanyahu convenes cabinet on settler violence in the West Bank that continues unabated

by Julia Frankel and Associated Press November 22, 2025

Two girls sit next to their drying laundry in a gutted apartment building in Gaza City, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

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Cardinal says situation on the ground hasn’t changed in Gaza

by Crux Now Staff November 21, 2025

People mourn at the grave of Hadar Goldin an Israeli soldier killed in Gaza in 2014 and whose body had been held there until it was released Sunday, during his funeral in Kfar Saba, Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (Credit: Abir Sultan/Pool via AP.)

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Israel’s president says ‘shocking’ settler violence against Palestinians must end

by Melanie Lidman, Julia Frankel and Associated Press November 13, 2025

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