About 40,000 U.S. personnel are spread throughout the region, giving Iran a chance to strike back at American military forces ...

Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï, patriarch of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, lamented the decline of the Christian population ...

Turning to all Christians in the Middle East, the Pope expressed his solidarity with them. “I am close to you, and the whole Church stands with you.” He argued this recent attack highlights “the deep ...

The international Catholic nonprofit Aid to the Church in Need spent more than $150 million on projects supporting Christians ...

The Middle East is undergoing a profound geopolitical transformation. Authoritarian regimes, long sustained by religious ...

Mourners carry the coffins of victims killed in Sunday’s suicide bombing at Mar Elias Church during a funeral procession at ...

Much Christian real estate in the Middle East is waqf land, religious endowments generally protected from seizure. In Islamic law, which is where waqf comes from, this land cannot be sold or ...

The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decades long series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and ...

NATO summit is set to focus on boosting allies' defence spending, but is starting a day after Iran retaliated against U.S.

Pope Leo XIV is urging the warring sides in the Israel-Iran war to “reject the logic of bullying and revenge.” He's urging ...

Among the earliest remarks by Pope Leo XIV were expressions and concern for the Christians of the East. Less than a week after his election as Supreme Pontiff, he spoke at the Jubilee of the Oriental ...

But this year, I was placed in the position of defending our imperative to actively support Israel among people who should ...