Death toll in Beirut car bomb rises

(Vatican Radio) Lebanon's interior minister said Friday the death toll from a powerful car bomb that ripped through a southern suburb of Beirut has risen to 22. The car bomb struck a bustling street in the Rweiss district in Beirut's southern suburbs, an overwhelmingly Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

The attacks are being seen as retaliation for Hezbollah's armed support for President Bashar Assad in neighbouring Syria's civil war.

Vatican Radio’s Xavier Sartre spoke to Archbishop Paul Sayah, vicar general of the Maronite Patriarchate about the repercussions the conflict in Syria is having on Lebanon. Listen