Photos show Lebanon’s Catholics marking Palm Sunday as the shadow of war weighs heavily
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. As Christians packed churches across Lebanon this Palm Sunday to commemorate their belief in Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the renewed war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah weighed on parishioners. Still, it was standing-room-only at a Maronite Catholic church near Dahiyeh, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a once-densely populated Shiite district where Hezbollah has long held sway — now emptied by sweeping
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