SW News: The Vatican’s top diplomat has visited Lebanon to express the solidarity of the Universal Church with those presently suffering in the Middle Eastern country. The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, made his visit on Thursday.  He met with the Lebanese Bishops, representatives of different religious communities, and humanitarian organizations at the St. George Maronite Cathedral in the capital city of Beirut.  He then celebrated Holy Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa which lies to the north of the capital.  In his homily, Cardinal Parolin encouraged the people of Lebanon to, “continue to hope and to find the strength and energy to set out again.”  Lebanon is currently in the grip of an economic, social and political crisis which has been made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Beirut explosion in early August which killed over 180 people and injured a further 6,500 more.

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