Here are some of the major stories of the Catholic Church around the world that you might have missed this past week.

On Thursday, 22 people were killed following air-strikes in Lebanon's capitol city, Beirut. Israel has escalated ... Louis ...

Girls and young women in Lebanon have received crucial support from religious Sisters to help them break free of brutality, ...

He created a 300-person Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant ... and asked Merhej to lead worship. His church community, four miles northeast of the Beirut port, was in a safe area far from ...

While Pope Francis was hospitalized in Rome's Gemelli hospital, one of the cardinals closest to him traveled to Lebanon to ...

She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around ... the parish priest of the Church of the Holy Family, the only Roman Catholic church in Gaza, says Pope Francis has called from ...

About 233, he and his brother, Athenodorus, accompanied his sister, who was joining her husband in Caesarea, Palestine, while they continued on to Beirut ... able to build a church, and soon ...