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 ...

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.

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 4 (UPI) --Lebanon, long plagued by impunity and a lack of accountability, marked the fifth anniversary Monday of the Beirut port explosion that devastated large parts of the ...

Lebanon on Monday marked five years since the deadly Beirut port blast that rocked the capital, killing more than 220 people and injured thousands of others. Hundreds of people gathered at Martyrs' ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hundreds of Lebanese gathered solemnly near Beirut's coast on Monday to commemorate a half-decade since the cataclysmic port blast of 2020, when more than 200 people were killed in ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 port blast in Beirut that killed over 200 people and compounded Lebanon's economic and political crisis during his first foreign trip as pope ...

BEIRUT — The Lebanese judge investigating the massive 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned two former security chiefs on Friday, including a former head of the General Security Directorate who ...