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Pope Leo urges Lebanese leaders to make peace highest priority
ByReuters in Beirut November 30, 2025

Pontiff tells politicians and religious heads they must persevere with peace efforts despite facing ‘highly complex, conflictual’ situationPope Leo has urged political leaders in Lebanon to make peace their highest priority in a forceful appeal as he i…

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Pope Leo urges Lebanese leaders to make peace highest priority
ByReuters in Beirut November 30, 2025

Pontiff tells politicians and religious heads they must persevere with peace efforts despite facing ‘highly complex, conflictual’ situationPope Leo has urged political leaders in Lebanon to make peace their highest priority in a forceful appeal as he i…

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Pope Leo warns of risk from ‘piecemeal’ world war in first overseas trip
ByAngela Giuffrida in Rome and Ruth Michaelson in Damascus November 27, 2025November 27, 2025

Leo welcomed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as he begins six-day itinerary that will also include visit to LebanonA new world war is being fought “piecemeal” and is endangering the future of humanity, Pope Leo has warned, as he arrived in Turkey for his first…

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Pope Leo to visit Turkey and Lebanon on first overseas trip
ByAngela Giuffrida in Rome October 7, 2025

Pontiff expected to appeal for peace across the Middle East and speak about the persecution of Christians in regionPope Leo’s debut overseas trip will be to Turkey and Lebanon, where he is expected to make appeals for peace across the Middle East, the …

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Cardinal calls Israel’s policy in Gaza ‘morally unjustifiable’ after visit
ByEmma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem July 22, 2025

Pierbattista Pizzaballa condemns blocks on food and warns against plans to force Palestinians to leave territoryIsrael’s government is pursuing an “unacceptable and morally unjustifiable” policy in Gaza, the Catholic Latin patriarch of Jerusalem has sa…

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Christian leaders make rare visit to shelled church in Gaza
ByAngela Giuffrida in Rome July 18, 2025

Israel grants access after ‘stray’ tank round kills three people and wounds Catholic priestIsrael has granted two senior Christian leaders rare access to Gaza after an Israeli strike on the Palestinian territory’s only Roman Catholic church killed thre…

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Israeli strike on Gaza church kills three and injures priest Pope Francis called daily
ByAngela Giuffrida in Rome July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

Two of the dead named as Pope Leo renews ceasefire call after strike on territory’s only Catholic churchAn Israeli strike has hit the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing three people and injuring 10 others including the parish priest, who used to rec…

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Britain must hold Israel to account for settler violence in the West Bank | Letter
ByGuardian staff July 13, 2025

Guli Francis-Dehqani, Rachel Treweek, Graham Usher, Christopher Chessun, the bishops of Chelmsford, Gloucester, Norwich and Southwark, say the UK government has a legal and moral duty to actAs the war in Gaza persists, the situation in the West Bank is…

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More than 20 dead after ‘Islamic State suicide bombing’ in Damascus church – video
ByGuardian staff June 23, 2025

A member of Islamic State opened fire on Sunday inside Mar Elias Church in the east of Damascus before blowing himself up, killing at least 22 people and injuring 63 others, Syria’s interior ministry said. Eyewitnesses inside the church reported a seco…

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Islamic State suicide bombing in Damascus church leaves many dead and dozens injured
ByWilliam Christou June 22, 2025

Evening attack is first major atrocity by Islamist terror group in Syria since President al-Assad was deposedA suicide bombing by Islamic State (IS) targeting a church in Damascus has killed 20 people and wounded 52, Syrian authorities have said.The at…

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