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Schedule released for Pope Leo’s debut foreign trip to Turkey, Lebanon

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Syrian Civil War

Pallbearers carry the coffin of a victim of Sunday’s suicide bombing at Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church during a funeral service at al-Saleeb Church in the al-Qasaa neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Credit: Omar Sanadiki/AP.)

Pope Leo says terrorist attack on Greek Orthodox church in Syria is ‘vile’

Jun 25
Charles Collins

Opposition fighters celebrate in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)

Archbishop says Christians have a role to play in the new Syria

Dec 18, 2024
Crux Staff

An opposition fighter steps on a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)

Argentinian priest in Aleppo says Christians are not being targeted

Dec 11, 2024
Eduardo Campos Lima

Syrian opposition fighters burn government Syrian flags for the cameras next to Aleppo’s old city, Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. (Credit: Ghaith Alsayed/AP.)

Christian leaders fearful after Islamist advance in Syria

Dec 3, 2024
Crux Staff

Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during the Presidential elections in the town of Douma, in the eastern Ghouta region, near the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, May 26, 2021.(Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

As Syria’s civil war marks 13th anniversary, and entire generation loses education

Mar 14, 2024
Charles Collins

Synod Files: Will ‘Synodality’ go the way of ‘New Evangelization’?

Oct 17, 2023
John L. Allen Jr.

Catholic charity blasts Syria sanctions, says they hurt only the poor

Nov 26, 2022
Elise Ann Allen

Vatican envoy says Syria is ‘losing hope,’ asks that it not be forgotten

Sep 5, 2022
Elise Ann Allen

Syrian bishop: Aleppo facing ‘bombardment’ of poverty

Aug 16, 2022
Doreen Abi Raad

Aid agencies warn of crisis if U.N. does not allow aid to northwest Syria

Jul 7, 2022
Dale Gavlak

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