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In this image provided by Sepahnews of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on Feb. 16, 2026, shows the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s drill in the Persian Gulf on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (Credit: Sepahnews via AP.)

Vatican office expresses ‘deep concern’ over stoppage at Straits of Hormuz

  • Mar 17
  • Crux Now Staff
A view of a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike, in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, March 16, 2026. (Credit: Bilal Hussein/AP.)

Israel steps up campaign in Lebanon; Iran hits near Church of the Holy Sepulcher

  • Mar 17
  • Bassem Mroue, 
    Jamey Keaten, Samy Magdy

War has already displaced nearly a million Lebanese, and aid groups warn of a humanitarian crisis

  • Mar 15
  • Kareem Chehayeb and Malak Harb
Louis Sako, patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, April 21, 2025. (Credit: Hadi Mizban/AP.)

Cardinal Sako, head of Chaldean Church in Iraq, retires as war engulfs the region

  • Mar 11
  • Nicole Winfield, 
    Abby Sewell
UNIFIL peacekeepers meet civilians waiting to be evacuated in southern Lebanon, March 10, 2026. (Credit: United Nations.)

Christian families flee southern Lebanon due to attacks from Israel

  • Mar 11
  • Crux Now Staff
Cardinal Francesco Montenegro, left, and from right, Father Paolo Stacchiotti and Cardinal Baldo Reina listen to Pope Leo XIV during a visit to the parish complex of Santa Maria della Presentazione on the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

As pope seeks dialogue and diplomacy, 2 US cardinals reject US-Israeli war in Iran

  • Mar 10
  • Nicole Winfield
People watch from a rooftop as a plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Credit: Vahid Salemi/AP.)

Leading Vatican official says war in the Middle East could cause world ‘being set ablaze’

  • Mar 4
  • Crux Now Staff
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee poses for a photo during an interview in Jerusalem, Aug. 20, 2025. (Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP.)

US says ambassador’s comments on Israel and the Middle East were taken out of context

  • Feb 23
  • Melanie Lidman, 
    Samy Magdy, Associated Press
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is seen during an interview in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP.)

US ambassador causes uproar by claiming Israel has a right to much of the Middle East

  • Feb 22
  • Sam Mednick, 
    Samy Magdy, Associated Press
A man walks past the ruins of St. Paul Orthodox Church during debris removal efforts following the February 2023 earthquakes in Antakya, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (Credit: Murat Kocabas/AP.)

Architect aims to rebuild a church and help restore a quake-hit Turkish city’s multicultural past

  • Feb 7
  • Serra Yedikardes, 
    Associated Press

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Icelandic police inspect priest’s comments on homosexuality

  • Mar 19
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