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BEIRUT, Lebanon — 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’s 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 Israeli evacuation orders and constant airstrikes. In the coastal city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, which has been almost cut off from the rest of the country by Israel bombing surrounding bridges, the peal of church bells and velvety choral music filled the air.
Worshipers walk in a procession during a Palm Sunday Mass at the Our Lady of Hadat Church in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)
Worshipers attend Palm Sunday Mass
