BEIRUT — Pope Leo XIV capped his first international trip as pontiff with an open-air Mass on the waterfront in Beirut, where he met with some of Lebanon’s most vulnerable and implored a crowd of tens ...

BEIRUT — Holy icons no longer witness Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in the Lebanese capital and there are no pews five years after an explosion in the main port sent a devastating shock ...

BEIRUT — Tens of thousands of people gathered in the Lebanese capital to witness Pope Leo XIV's message of unity to a shattered city and a fractured state Tuesday. Before Mass, the pontiff stopped by ...

Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of Lebanon’s dysfunction and official impunity as he offered words of consolation to Lebanon’s ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and called for justice to prevail, as he ...

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.) Listen BEIRUT — Pope Leo XIV prayed ...

Pope Leo XIV prays at the site of the Beirut port blast in August 2020, in Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 2, 2025. (CNS photo/Yara Nardi, pool via Reuters) Pope Leo concluded his visit to Lebanon with a ...

A waterfront Mass in the Lebanese capital capped the pope’s three-day visit to the Middle Eastern nation with the largest proportion of Christians. A waterfront Mass in the Lebanese capital capped the ...

Pope Leo XIV offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he wraps up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Tuesday. He also met with relatives of some of the 218 ...

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ALBUQUERQUE. THAT’S RIGHT ON TIME. AT 17 MINUTES. WE HAVE SOME BREAKING NEWS FROM OVERNIGHT. A GAS EXPLOSION JUST ROCKED THE NORTHEAST ALBUQUERQUE HOME, DESTROYING THE HOME AND SENDING ONE PERSON TO ...