Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:Third (and final) day of Pope Leo XIV's visit to Lebanon, with everything you need to know about where to be and when here. Pope Leo XIV urges peace from Lebanon and resilience from its youth: “Blessed are the peacemakers,” Pope Leo XIV re-quoted the Sermon on the Mount during his second day in Lebanon, rife with references to reconciliation and calls to the country’s youth to abide in his addresses. He held public audiences at the Saint Maron Monastery, Annaya, the Basilica of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa, Martyr’s Square in downtown Beirut, and the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkirki.Pope Leo XIV holds a sermon at Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa, northeast of Beirut, on Dec. 1, 2025....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:Third (and final) day of Pope Leo XIV's visit to Lebanon, with everything you need to know about where to be and when here. Pope Leo XIV urges peace from Lebanon and resilience from its youth: “Blessed are the peacemakers,” Pope Leo XIV re-quoted the Sermon on the Mount during his second day in Lebanon, rife with references to reconciliation and calls to the country’s youth to abide in his addresses. He held public audiences at the Saint Maron Monastery, Annaya, the Basilica of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa, Martyr’s Square in downtown Beirut, and the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkirki.Pope Leo XIV holds a sermon at Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa, northeast of Beirut, on Dec. 1,...
