Background/Aims On 17 September 2024, over 3000 pager devices containing explosives were remotely detonated across Lebanon in ...

With a silent march, moving testimonies, and the symbolic planting of 75 trees in honor of the victims, Lebanon commemorated on Aug. 4 the fifth anniversary of the devastating explosion that rocked ...

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 ...

As part of his visit to Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut port explosion — the largest nonnuclear blast in modern history. For William Noun, the brother of a ...

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 ...

The city of Beirut was rocked by one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. In a matter of seconds, a massive blast tore through Lebanon’s capital, killing 218 people, injuring over 7,000, ...

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 ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Lebanese authorities on Monday over their continued inaction concerning the devastating explosion in Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020. The blast, one of the largest ...

Pope Leo XIV visits site of 2020 Beirut port explosion Pope Leo XIV lays wreath, lights candle at 2020 blast memorial at the port of Beirut in Lebanon. (Pool via Reuters.) ...

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 ...