Report: Pope Possibly to Visit Lebanon Next Year
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Preparations underway for a possible visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Lebanon in 2012 in an attempt to preserve the Christians’ existence in the country and the East, As Safir newspaper reported on Friday.
“The Vatican and the Maronite Patriarchate have a priority at this stage to preserve the existence of Christians” in the East, church sources told the daily.
The sources revealed that a meeting that was set to be held between Middle East bishops in Baghdad in November was cancelled due to “the developing security incidents in Iraq.”
“The meeting was moved to Beirut, and the Patriarch (Beshara al-Rahi) will visit Baghdad instead later on,” they stressed.
Information obtained by the Vatican and the Maronite Patriarchate indicates that the number of Christians displaced from Syria has increased because of the unstable situation in their country.
The sources told the newspaper that al-Rahi’s latest stances “came over information obtained by the Vatican on the threats endangering the Christians’ presence in the region.”
“There is a full coordination between the Maronite Patriarchate and the Vatican in this matter,” they added.
Al-Rahi called during his visit to Paris in September for giving Syrian President Bashar Assad the chance to introduce reform after warning that the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria was a threat to Christians in the neighboring country.
21 October 2011, 14:28
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hitlerjugend is coming to lebanon. i guess gemayel will tell him how phalange originated.
and lady gaga will tell him that his anti-lebanese forces never changed that original roots
21 October 2011, 16:32
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I love watching the Christian right scramble. They were just attacking the Patriarch and by extension his common views with the Vatican and now they will welcome him and play innocent. WAKE UP, you no longer have any clout, you divided amongst yourselves and sold yourselves to Hariri dynasty. you're wahabi lackeys
21 October 2011, 21:20
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@independent "his common view with the Vatican"? The Vatican was concerned with what the Patriarch was saying. Stop making stuff up.
21 October 2011, 23:06
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The only threat to Christians in the Middle East is the Iranian Project of Chaos, death, and destruction in the wider diverse Middle East, called the ISLAMIC middle east, which translates into inducting (and Qom training, brainwashing, radicalizing and finally zombifying) the Arab Shiites to inciting Sunnis to attack Christians and getting the Free world to come in and consume a lot resources in fighting Iran fueled Sunni extremism and then picking up the Pieces and creating the Iranian style criminal theocracy in the wider ME when the free world pulls out. This plan compliments the criminal Dictators such as Assad that have long used state resources to divide and conquer their people..So if they are busy hating each other no one would hold the dictator accountable for his uselessness in developing the country and his deep rooted corruption culture that his regime has nurtured to stay in power. This goes for seemingly secular (Alawite) dictatorship or all out religious dictatorships.
21 October 2011, 23:09
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jabalamel interesting so the pope is a nazi funny how none of the pretend christians like the shiite phenicien called you on it, i wonder what the Pope thinks about the whereabouts of the long ape ,moussa sadr and his two accompanying chimpanzees yaakoub and badreddin, I bet as they were decompose their odor improved.
22 October 2011, 08:57
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The Pope's main goal for his possible trip to Lebanon is doomed to fail because converting Hariri's Christian Sunnis back to the faith is out of the question. Why? Because the Catholic Church neither has nor is willing to spend millions on losers who would sell their own mothers cheap. Also, the Church will not accept that these politically and morally dead and soul-less individuals continue to limp along life with their soul balloons filled with fart. They are doomed to go to hell, where they should spend another eternity as punishment for the hell that they have and continue to put us through every single minute of every day.
