Upwards of 150,000 people came together at Beirut’s waterfront Tuesday morning for mass with Pope Leo XIV.

AFP reports the pontiff arrived from Turkey on Sunday on the next step of his inaugural foreign visit as pope and brought a message of hope, particularly to young people in Lebanon.

A jubilant welcome was laid on for the pontiff at the site of the 2020 bomb blast.

Beirut is a nation beset by a years-long economic collapse and which is still reeling from a war last year between Israel and the Hezbollah terrorist group.

According to the AFP report, he told the crowd during his homily that Lebanon, is “overshadowed by the many problems that afflict you, the fragile and often unstable political context, the dramatic economic crisis that weighs heavily upon you and the violence and c

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