Pope Leo XIV video-calls priests in southern Lebanon

12 articles · Updated · Vatican News - English · May 6

The brief call on Wednesday morning reached parish priests in villages along the Israel border, with Archbishop Paolo Borgia, the Greek-Catholic bishop of Tyre and a Vicar general involved.
Leo offered prayers, encouragement and his apostolic blessing to clergy serving communities hit for months by missiles and bombardments, in what one priest called a much-needed breath of hope.
The call followed Leo's Vatican meeting with Borgia, who has been delivering aid in the south; the Pope visited Lebanon in December 2025 and remains engaged with the war-torn country's crisis.

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