The pope then holds Mass along the Beirut waterfront, calling for Lebanon to be a “home of justice and fraternity” and a “prophetic sign of peace” in the region. In his homily, Leo acknowledges the ...

Families still grieve in a Lebanon engulfed in crises—and direct their rage toward the country’s entrenched ruling class.

A Bulgarian court has rejected Lebanon's request to extradite Igor Grechushkin, the owner of a ship linked to the 2020 Beirut port explosion ...

Watch live as Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in Beirut after holding a silent prayer at the site of a port explosion in Beirut that killed over 200 people in 2020. Read more: https://bit.ly/3M4orgC ...

Pope Leo stopped by the site of the powerful chemical explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 218 people and injured 7,000 in August 2020. He held a moment of silent prayer in front of the memorial ...

Pope Leo XIV offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he wrapped up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Tuesday. He also met with relatives of some of the ...

"My home is now destroyed," a 7-year-old cancer patient said. "This was my hospital. It's gone. I don't want to see my hospital die like this." ...

The city of Beirut was rocked by one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. In a matter of seconds, a massive blast tore through Lebanon’s capital, killing 218 people, injuring over 7,000, ...