Al-Rahi Calls for Choosing New President Capable of Confronting Challenges
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stressed on Friday the importance of electing a new head of state in Lebanon, who would be up to the level of the circumstance that will confront him.
He voiced hope during his sermon at the Saint Maroun Church at the Maronite College in Rome that peace “would prevail in the Middle East.”
“We should not consider that we are living in misery in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Middle East region,” al-Rahi said.
The patriarch is currently in Rome to attend on Sunday the canonization ceremony in St. Peter's for Pope John Paul II and his Italian predecessor John XXIII.
He will later head to France where he will meet with the Lebanese community at the Roman Catholic pilgrimage site of Lourdes.
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