Pope calls for peace on last day in Lebanon

  • 12 years ago
On the last day of the Pope Benedict's visit to Lebanon, he celebrated an open-air mass in front of around 350,000 pilgrims, as well as politicians from all sectors of the multi-faith country.

The pilgrims had come to Beirut from across the Middle East, where the service was held at an altar built on land reclaimed with debris from Lebanon's 1975-1990 sectarian civil war.

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