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Pope Leo XIV's 2020 Beirut Blast Site Prayer Reduces Victims' Families To Tears
Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday astatine the tract of a deadly 2020 Beirut larboard detonation that has go a awesome of dysfunction and authoritative impunity and called for justness to prevail, arsenic helium offered words of consolation to Lebanon’s radical connected the last time of his archetypal overseas trip. Relatives of immoderate of the 218 radical killed by the blast held up photos of their loved ones arsenic Leo arrived astatine the scorched site. They stood broadside by broadside arsenic Leo prayed silently archetypal astatine a monument to the dead, past greeted each one, grasping their hands. The affectional brushwood took spot adjacent to the ammunition of the past atom silo lasting astatine the tract destroyed by the August 4, 2020, blast and the piles of burned cars torched successful its wake. The detonation did billions of dollars successful harm arsenic hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated successful a larboard warehouse. Five years on, the families of those killed are inactive seeking justice.
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