DEFIANT IN LEBANON’S SOUTH: CHRISTIANS STAY AS ISRAEL ADVANCES; POPE OFFERS BLESSING

Roum Orthodox Christians, Tarez Butros Najem and her husband Boulos Alewi pick up laundry at the yard of their house in Tyre, Lebanon, April 11, 2026.The family won’t celebrate the Orthodox Easter this year, as the priest of the Orthodox Church was evacuated to Sidon, since the start of the war. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki