Pope Leo departed Lebanon on Tuesday, urging Middle Eastern leaders to heed their people's calls for peace and to move away from the "horror of war."
The first U.S. pope wrapped up his first overseas trip as Catholic leader by addressing 150,000 people at a Mass on Beirut's historic waterfront, where he pleaded for Lebanon to address years of conflict, political crises and economic misery.
Leo said the region as a whole needed new approaches to overcome political, social and religious divisions.
"The path of mutual hostility and destruction in the horror of war has been travelled too long, with the deplorable results t
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