Rome, 2 December (LaPresse) – The people of Lebanon are the recipients of ‘a rare beauty’, but also spectators and victims ‘of how evil, in many forms, can obscure this magnificence’. Pope Leo XIV said this during Mass at the Waterfront in Beirut, Lebanon. The beauty of the “Land of Cedars”, the Pope emphasised, ‘is overshadowed by poverty and suffering, by wounds that have marked your history.’ Referring to his visit to the port affected by the 2020 explosion, the Pontiff added that Lebanon's beauty ‘is overshadowed by the many problems that afflict you, by a fragile and often unstable political context, by the dramatic economic crisis that oppresses you, by the violence and conflicts that have reawakened ancient fears’.
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