BEIRUT — Holy icons no longer witness Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in the Lebanese capital and there are no pews five years after an explosion in the main port sent a devastating shock wave through the city. While new slabs of white ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The destroyed silos in the port of Beirut on 1 August 2025, five years after the colossal explosion of 4 August 2020. (AFP - JOSEPH EID) Five years after the deadly explosion at Beirut ...

With a silent march, moving testimonies, and the symbolic planting of 75 trees in honor of the victims, Lebanon commemorated on Aug. 4 the fifth anniversary of the devastating explosion that rocked Beirut’s port in 2020, leaving 245 dead and 6,000 injured.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Lebanese authorities on Monday over their continued inaction concerning the devastating explosion in Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020. The blast, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, killed at least 236 ...

Pope Leo XIV prays at the site of the Beirut port blast in August 2020, in Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 2, 2025. (CNS photo/Yara Nardi, pool via Reuters) Pope Leo concluded his visit to Lebanon with a heartfelt appeal at the airport before departing for Rome on ...

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“It was impossible not to be impacted by the Beirut explosion,” says Sarah Hermez, co-founder of Creative Space Beirut (CSB). The free fashion school was founded in 2011 to offer high-quality design education to underprivileged Lebanese youth.

The BERYT project helped restore heritage buildings damaged by the Port of Beirut explosion, allowing vulnerable families to return home, and supported cultural and creative practitioners through grant funding to resume their activities. Funded by the ...