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Vatican skips real stories behind papal meeting with Muslim group

Church in the Middle East

Two men walk near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (Credit: Ariel Schalit/AP.)

Holy Land Catholic leaders: End of the war is not end of the conflict

Jan 17
John Lavenburg

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reviews the honor guard at the Lebanese Parliament in Beirut, Lebanon, on Jan. 9, 2025. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)

Lebanon needs health Christian community, ambassador to Vatican says

Jan 15
Crux Staff

Top Vatican diplomat seeks to mediate peace in the Middle East

Jan 14
Elise Ann Allen

Day after Pope said he’d been blocked, Catholic patriarch enters Gaza after all

Dec 23, 2024
Crux Staff

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

Holy Land patriarchs call for Christmas ceasefire throughout Middle East

Dec 17, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

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

News of Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire received by American bishops with ‘profound hope’

Nov 28, 2024
John Lavenburg

Displaced infant Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian, who suffers from polio, sleeps at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (Credit: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP.)

Catholic agency warns of polio crisis possible in Gaza

Oct 25, 2024
Charles Collins