Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked around the blurred edges of international law to save the lives of more than 200 people.

They "pray, pray" that family members can get out of northern Iraq before a major Islamic State attack.

Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of Maronite Catholics, welcomed the election of a new Lebanese president, ending a two-and-a-half-year power vacuum that had crippled the country's government institutions.

The plight of these children and teens highlights the growing problem of unaccompanied child migrants throughout Europe.

Emotions ran high when the church bell tolled for the first time in more than two years.