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Pope Leo XIV meets with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Beirut Nov. 30, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) (Lola Gomez)

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Pope urges Lebanese not to give up on peace or each other

December 1, 2025January 21, 2026

BEIRUT CNS – Acknowledging the existence of "circumstances that are highly complex, conflictual and uncertain," Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lebanon preaching peace.Just a week before the Pope arrived Nov. 30, Israel had made its latest strike on Lebanon, killing a Hezbollah commander and four militants in a suburb of Beirut.Arriving from Istanbul, a two-hour…...