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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 ...

Pope Leo will visit the monastery of St. Maron and the shrine of St. Charbel, Lebanon's miracle-working unifier of Muslims, ...

"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 ...

In one afternoon, Amani Bazzi went from being a doting mother-of-four to a widow grieving three young children.An Israeli ...

An already troubled ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon is looking shakier than ever. Since the truce was announced on Nov. 27, 2024, there have been more than 10,000 Israeli air and ground ...

BEIRUT -- Lebanon and Cyprus signed a long-delayed sea border agreement on Wednesday, ending an almost 20-year impasse that ...