الراعي الى الأردن ليتوجه بعدها الى القدس: استأذنت سليمان وسلام للقيام بالزيارة

Good for you! No one has the right to interfere.

Allah ma3ak batrakna! you are doing us proud in your capacity as head of the marointe faith. Thank you for not giving two thoughts about what those animals wish. continue your path for we are all behind you.

Let the critics begin !

Al Rahi single handedly shut all hypocrit politicians up.

If Hezbollah has a problem with this, let them compare their visit to Syria which everyone objected against with this. And count the number of casualties and deaths resulting of both "visits".

Al-Rahi is conquering back the Eastern Christian's rights over Jerusalem without a single drop of blood. In this, he's mightier than Hezbollah !

lol, exactly! yet they lie and say they won

good step sayedna el batrak , at least you shou the israely state that Christians will stay in the holy land even if they become a purely jewish state
god bless democracy and no to apartheid states

Sheikh Naiim Qassem said this is problematic, what will they do to Cardinal Rai, what will they do? What kind of problems will they created for him?

The road to peace in the Middle East is not through an arms race like the one between Hezbollah/Iran and Israel. It is not through boycots etc. Its through dialogue and building trust little by little.

Israel showed them the stars in mid day sunshine:)

The Christians and Jerusalem are intertwined. Jerusalem holds the cradle of Jesus and there is where Jesus lived, died and resurrected. No one could deny the Christians their basic right of being in Jerusalem where they have churches from all denominations. Jerusalem is a land for all religions. Just confining it to one religion or another is simply hypocritical. As christian, we have no problems with the state of Israel on a personal and religious basis. We do sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians and wish that one day they could have their own land and govern it by themselves. However, the Christians should have the freedom to travel to Jerusalem for religious purposes without this being construed politically. To us the Christian, Jerusalem is a holly land where our lord Jesus traversed. That's why we have every right to go there. I support the visit of the Patrak.

When Nasrallah has gone to Tehran to bow and kiss the ring of Khomenie and swear loyalty and fealty to a foreign leader, this is an act of treason, but he has done it and Nasrallah leads a political party.
Patriarch does not lead a political party or faction; he is not going to kiss the ring of Netanyahu or swear allegiance to Israel. Patriarch is among other things a pastor over his congregation, some of which live south of Lebanon's boarder. It is his duty and his right to minister to them.
So Hezbollah, shut your trap on this one.

Appart from the nausea caused by reading some of the comments. This visit is simply unwarranted. Without judging anyone, this adds to the long Arab history of betrayal. Jerusalem is under occupation and the priest is simply giving is blessings.. ironically literally.

I wish more Lebanese would follow suit and make decisive decsions like this instead of allowing primitive Islamic terrorists that bow down to the Iranian cancer in Tehran to push them around.

To Flamethrower who represents Iran on this site: Your arguments are futile and meaningless.

Lol at this forum. Everything from zionist propaganda to persian propaganda and then as a cherry on top, christians pretending like al-rahi went to jerusalem to reclaim the glory of the crusaders when he is there as a mouse, nobody cares about his presence, nobody notices his presence nor is he even known to most people. Everyone needs to take a break from the sun, your brains are melting :)

Where is Aoun? Does he have something to say? The so-called defender of Christians....Or is he in reality the servile khadim of the "divine party"???

The journalist of France 24 was shaking while asking the questions...like someone who obeys orders from outside agents.
The Batrak should excommunicate any Christian who obeys the "divine party". FULL STOP.

There is nothing Holy or Divine about this "Guy".

He apparently has a Mistress.

i suggest that they all leave us alone we want to go to israel and you don't like it bite us :) go do your own shit and we do our own
hizb and bullshit and those fake people take my advise lebanon without christians will be like dahyie :) good luck

Berri described the resistance as the “most powerful military force in the Middle East and the third in the world.” HA supporters either have a severe case of delusion or a bad sense of humor. 1200+ Lebanese died in that war, thousands more were displaced and wounded. The country's infrastructure was destroyed. The other side lost a couple hundred people. And delusional people called it divine victory. They can call it whatever they want as their naive supporters would believe anything.
I am sure they were thrilled at Berri's statement and are celebrating their all mighty military force.
If HA is the third most powerful force in the world,hummm, who are number 1 and 2? Let me guess: It is Iran and Syria.

does anybody know if batrak and top clergy have pasport from vatican/holy see ?

The Patriarch is showing Hezbollah and Iran that they don't fully control Lebanon. Ever since the 7th century, invaders have tried to subjugate us. They have not and never will succeed.

"and that he will not meet during his visit with “any civilian or political official.”
"he will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas."
So can we presume that Abbas is not a political official?

Ask your government. Demand a reply from them.