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An uneasy calm hangs over Aleppo, Christian leaders report, following the recent lightning takeover of Syria's second-largest city by Islamist rebels driving out forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Concerns also mount over government airstrikes.

Since Hamas' attack on Israel Oct.

7, 2023, and the immediate start of the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis has provided daily spiritual solace to Gaza Strip's only Catholic parish.

According to Lebanon's National News Agency, Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, "voiced his profound pain over the catastrophe affecting nearly 3,000 Lebanese citizens, some of whom have died an