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Pope Leo XIV holds a moment of prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope prays at site of 2020 Beirut port explosion

Dec 2
Nicole Winfield,
Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV prays in front of the tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf at the Monastery of Saint Maroun, in Annaya, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/Pool via AP.)

Pope in Beirut hails Lebanon as example of tolerance

Dec 1
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Pope Leo XIV waves from his popemobile in Annaya, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Pope urges Lebanese pastors, religious to embrace spirit of solidarity

Dec 1
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Pope Leo XIV arrives in Beirut in Lebanon, Nov. 30, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV’s visit highlights Christian resilience in Lebanon despite regional turmoil

Dec 1
Bassem Mroue,
Associated Press

Father Maurice El Khoury, left, leads Sunday Mass inside a room usually used as a residence for visiting bishops next to St. George Melkite Catholic Church, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in the town of Dardghaya, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Cardinal Parolin says Pope Leo aiming to give hope to Christians in the Middle East

Nov 27
Crux Staff

A billboard displays an image of Pope Leo XIV, ahead of his upcoming visit to Lebanon, near the grain silos at Beirut's port that were heavily damaged in the massive 2020 explosion as a graffiti in Arabic reading "Victims of the Beirut port explosion" is seen in the foreground, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Pope Leo XIV’s visit rekindles hope in war- and crisis-battered Lebanon

Nov 25
Kareem Chehayeb,
Abby Sewell, Associated Press

The sun sets behind the dome of the Melkite Greek Catholic Basilica of Saint Paul in Harissa, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Photos show Christian landmarks in Lebanon ahead of the pope’s visit

Nov 24
Hassan Ammar,
Associated Press

Pope’s jubilee visit to Turkey to advance political, ecumenical agenda

Nov 30, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

In Brussels, Pope Francis meets with Jesuits from Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands on Sep. 28, 2024. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope says Church must ‘confront forms of paganism’ in secularism

Oct 9, 2024
Charles Collins

Pope Francis is welcomed by Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, left, and Luxembourg’s Grand Duke Henri, right, at the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (Credit: Omar Havana/AP.)

Cardinal says Pope Francis a ‘pilgrim of hope’ for a Europe facing a ‘demographic winter’

Sep 26, 2024
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