Pope Leo XIV's first foreign trip is over. A six-day pilgrimage to the Middle East wrapped up Tuesday in Beirut. We were in conflict-torn Lebanon just a few miles from the country's Ground Zero, where ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of Lebanon’s dysfunction, official impunity and scars. Relatives of some of the ...

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 ...

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 gives his homily during Mass in Beirut, Lebanon, on the final day of his first apostolic journey Dec. 2. At the end of Mass, he said: "Listen to the cry of your peoples who are calling ...

Five years after the August 4, 2020 explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history, families of the 236 people killed and more than 7,000 wounded say they are still waiting for truth and ...

The August 2020 explosion in the port of Beirut—understood to be one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in recorded history—killed over 200 people and injured over 6,500, while devastating large ...

The Lebanese judge investigating the catastrophic Beirut port explosion in 2020 has completed his work after more than five years. Judge Tareq Bitar has sent the case to Attorney General Jamal Hajjar ...