STORY: Pope Leo on Tuesday (December 2) prayed at the site of the 2020 chemical explosion at Beirut’s port and greeted blast survivors and relatives of those killed.

The 2020 explosion at the port killed at least 220 and caused damage worth billions of dollars, but an investigation into the cause has been stymied, with no one held to account.

The first U.S. pope, Leo ends a three-day visit to Lebanon on Tuesday, wrapping up his first overseas trip as Catholic leader, during which he pleaded for peace in the Middle East and warned that humanity's future was at risk from the world's bloody conflicts.

The pope later will lead a Catholic Mass on the city's waterfront expected to draw 100,000 people before leaving for Rome.

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VIDEO SHOWS: POPE LEO HOLDING SILENT PRAYER AT THE SITE OF THE 2020 BEIRUT PORT EXPLOSION / POPE LEO MEETING FAMILIES OF VICTIMS OF THE BEIRUT PORT BLAST

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SHOWS: BEIRUT, LEBANON (DECEMBER 2, 2025) (HOST BROADCASTER – ACCESS ALL) (PART OVERLAID WITH MUSIC)

1. POPE LEO ARRIVING AT THE SITE OF THE 2020 BEIRUT PORT EXPLOSION

2. DRONE FOOTAGE OF POPE LEO MOTORCADE AT THE SITE

3. POPE LEO LISTENING

4. DRONE FOOTAGE OF POPE LEO AT THE SITE

5. VARIOUS OF POPE LEO HOLDING A SILENT PRAYER IN FRONT OF THE MEMORIAL FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE PORT EXPLOSION

6. POPE LEO WALKING TO THE MEMORIAL AND HOLDING A WREATH OF FLOWERS / POPE LEO LIGHTING A CANDLE

7. VARIOUS OF POPE LEO PRAYING AND THEN WALKING AWAY

8. DRONE FOOTAGE OF POPE LEO AT THE SITE

9. VARIOUS OF POPE LEO MEETING BLAST SURVIVORS AND RELATIVES OF THE VICTIMS OF THE PORT EXPLOSION

10. FAMILIES OF VICTIMS HOLDING PICTURES OF THEIR LOVED ONES

11. VARIOUS OF POPE LEO GREETING BLAST SURVIVORS AND RELATIVES OF THE VICTIMS OF THE PORT EXPLOSION / DRONE FOOTAGE OF POPE LEO MEETING WITH FAMILIES OF VICTIMS AND BLAST SURVIVORS

12. POPE LEO LEAVING THE SITE OF THE 2020 BEIRUT PORT EXPLOSION

13. DRONE FOOTAGE OF POPE LEO LEAVING

14. POPE LEO GETTING INTO HIS CAR

15. DRONE FOOTAGE OF POPE LEO GETTING INTO THE CAR