Just days before the one-year anniversary of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, the government of Lebanon announced that it would provide official disability cards and full benefits to thousands of ...

Pope Leo XIV is beginning the first foreign trip of his papacy. Over the next six days he will first visit Turkey for an historic Christian anniversary. He will then visit Lebanon just days after ...

Five civilians were killed and nine injured in an explosion in an arms depot in the town of Kafr Takharim in Syria’s Idlib ...

An Israeli strike killed two in northern Gaza and gunfire killed one near Khan Younis, as a widescale Israeli military raid ...

Pope Leo XIV begins his first foreign trip with a sensitive pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon, stepping into a region ...

Leo XIV will set out on his first foreign trip as pope on the morning of Nov. 27, first to Turkey, a Muslim country with a ...

"This first international trip will be a very public test of Leo's papacy," writes Fr. Thomas Reese. "I don't expect a home run on his first time at bat, but neither will he strike out. A base hit ...

Journeys are Leo's first trips abroad as pontiff; in Turkey he will mark 1,700th anniversary of Council of Nicaea, in Lebanon ...

Pope Leo XIV will make his debut on the international stage this week when he visits Türkiye and Lebanon to commemorate the ...

The upcoming visit of Pope Leo XIV to Lebanon has rekindled a glimmer of hope for many in the small, crisis-battered country.

The director of the Holy See Press Office presents Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic journey that takes him to Türkiye and ...

The first visit of a pope to the modern Lebanese state in 1964 came during a prosperous time that today many look back on ...