A traveler walked through Beirut months after the port explosion and found a city still carrying open wounds. The most ...

On a warm, clear August day in Beirut, Lebanon, five years ago, the lives of countless residents of the Middle Eastern coastal metropolis — including the city’s numerous Christians — changed forever.

Pope Leo XIV paused on the final morning of his trip to Lebanon before the ruins of the Beirut port explosion, praying in silence and placing a wreath in memory of the victims. He also met families of ...

BEIRUT (RNS) — On Aug. 4, 2020, Melvine Khoury and her brother watched curiously from the window of their home in Achrafieh as smoke and fire rose from the port of Beirut. Just as they started to ...

BEIRUT, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Five years after losing her daughter in a devastating chemical explosion at Beirut's port, Nelly El Helou said Pope Leo's silent prayer at the site on Tuesday was enough to ...

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 ...

As Pope Leo XIV was wrapping up his first apostolic trip to Turkey and Lebanon recently, the world was moved by the sight of a young Lebanese woman crying and hugging the pontiff as he was meeting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke rose into the sky above Beirut early Monday following an explosion in the Lebanese capital as tensions with Israel continued ...

A statue of a woman by Lebanese artist Hayat Nazer, made out of rubble and a broken clock marking the time (6:08 PM) of the mega explosion at the port of Beirut, stands opposite the site of the blast ...

Pope Leo XIV concluded the first foreign trip of his papacy today with a Mass at the Beirut waterfront. Lebanese officials said about 150,000 people were in attendance. In recent years, Lebanon has ...

Court cites lack of security guarantees from Lebanon Grechushkin detained in Bulgaria, wanted by Lebanon Lebanon's blast probe hindered by political interference SOFIA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - A Bulgarian ...

BEIRUT (RNS) — Survivors of the 2020 Beirut port explosion say they are still waiting for the truth as Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon to become ‘a home of justice and fraternity.’ BEIRUT (RNS) — On Aug. 4 ...