{"id":400256,"date":"2025-12-02T13:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=400256"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:33:50","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-concludes-trip-to-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/pope-leo-xiv-concludes-trip-to-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV concludes trip to Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Catholic Church, concluded his trip to Lebanon on Tuesday (2). This was the pontiff\u2019s first international journey and his first visit to an Arab country since his election in May this year. Before Lebanon, where he arrived on November 30, the Pope visited Turkey, which is also in the Middle East but is not an Arab country.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pope\u2019s Mass gathers 150,000 people in Beirut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In his final address in Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV spoke about peace and dialogue. \u201cWeapons kill. Negotiation, mediation, and dialogue build. Let us all choose peace as a path, not just as a goal,\u201d he said during a farewell ceremony at Beirut\u2019s Rafiq Hariri International Airport, in the presence of Lebanon\u2019s President, Joseph Aoun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leo XIV praised the Lebanese people. \u201cWe have been together, and being together in Lebanon is contagious: here I found a people who do not seek isolation, but connection,\u201d he said. \u201cThus, if arriving meant delicately entering your culture, leaving this land is taking you in my heart,\u201d he added, expressing hope that the spirit of fraternity and commitment to peace spreads throughout the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leader of the Catholic Church said the visit fulfilled a wish of Pope Francis, as the Argentine pope had wanted to come to Lebanon. \u201cIn truth, he is with us, accompanying us in the company of other witnesses of the Gospel who await us in God\u2019s eternal embrace: we are heirs of what they believed in, of the faith, hope, and love that inspired them,\u201d he said, according to Vatican News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Lebanon, the pope had a packed schedule, including a Mass in the capital for around 150,000 people; a prayer at Beirut Port, the site of the 2020 explosion; a visit to the Hospital de la Croix, which cares for 800 mentally ill and psychiatric patients; a meeting with Christian and Muslim religious leaders at Martyrs\u2019 Square; a prayer at the tomb of Saint Charbel Makl\u016bf; a gathering with bishops at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa; and a celebration with young people in Bkerk\u00e9, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a9Giuseppe Cacace\/AFP<\/div>
\u00a9Giuseppe Cacace\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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