What Awaits Pope Leo XIV in Lebanon…

That Pope Leo would add Lebanon to his first international trip is a signal of both the country’s importance and crisis situation. Lebanon may not be very important on the world stage. But what gives it weight in the Vatican is that it is indeed a real bastion of Eastern Christianity, especially Catholic Christianity. With a Christian percentage of “only” 37% of the population, it has an influential critical mass of Christians within the population as a whole…

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