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Pope Leo XIV speaks at the Monastery of St. Maron in Annaya, Lebanon, location of the tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf, on December 1, 2025. / Elias Tirk/AIGAV Pool Annaya, Lebanon, Dec 1, 2025 / 03:37 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV began his second day in Lebanon on Monday with a deeply symbolic pilgrimage to…

Pope Leo XIV encourages Catholic clergy, religious brothers and sisters, and lay pastoral workers to see the Catholic community’s small size as a strength during an encounter at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 28, 2025 / 01:55 am (CNA). Pope…

Pope Leo XIV visits a care home for the elderly run by a community of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 28, 2025 / 03:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV visited the Nursing Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor…

Scenes of David as shepherd defending his flock from a lion and a bear at the base of the Tickhill Psalter’s Tree of Jesse. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library, Spencer Collection New York City, New York, Nov 30, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Part of the New York Public Library’s…

Pope Leo XIV arrives in Lebanon on November 30, 2025. / Vatican Media Beirut, Lebanon, Nov 30, 2025 / 08:32 am (CNA). The sky over Lebanon — once dominated by missile exchanges and relentless air raids during the 2023–2024 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel — opened Sunday not to warplanes but to the aircraft carrying…

Pope Leo XIV talks to reporters during his flight to Lebanon on Nov. 30, 2025. / Credit: Elias Turk/EWTN News Beirut, Lebanon, Nov 30, 2025 / 10:15 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that he discussed both the Gaza war and the conflict in Ukraine directly with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying that…