Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi expressed hope on Sunday that a National Dialogue that President Michel Suleiman had called for would succeed.

Al-Rahi also hoped in his sermon that the all-party talks would lead to the adoption of a new national pact that would create a “Lebanese Spring.”

Several parts of a residential building collapsed in the town of Sarba north of Beirut overnight, injuring one person, media reports said Sunday.

Two floors of the building, which lies on the main road, were damaged in the collapse, they said.

An audio recording for 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims abducted in Syria will be released soon, the International Human Rights Organization and a Syrian mediator said, as outgoing Syrian opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun announced receiving information claiming that the abductees might comprise non-civilian individuals.

Rebel Brig. Gen. Hussameddine al-Awwak, who described himself as a mediator, told LBC that the abductees comprise five Hizbullah commanders, including a man called Hussein Hammoud, noting that their bus was intercepted by the kidnappers for making several stops near Free Syrian Army bases and because the passengers had “suspicious surveillance binoculars.”

March 14 opposition MP Butros Harb hoped on Sunday that Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat would stop his support for the government to force its collapse.

“Maybe under a certain circumstance, Walid Jumblat and his bloc would change their stance and we could file a vote of no confidence,” Harb said in response to a question as to how the opposition would seek a change of government.

A year after the kidnapping of Syrian opposition member Shebli al-Aisamy in the Lebanese town of Aley, his family began losing hope of seeing him alive.

“We are convinced that the operation was carried out through the Syrian embassy in Beirut with the assistance of Lebanese sides,” his daughter, Raja Sharafeddine, told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat published Sunday.

The 11 Lebanese pilgrims abducted in Aleppo are in a good condition and will be released by tomorrow night, spokesman of the Syrian al-Ahrar party Naser Doqmaq revealed on Saturday.

“The abducted Lebanese are in a good condition but the latest developments in Syria postponed their release,” Doqmaq said in statement.

Customs thwarted on Saturday an attempt by a Lebanese national to smuggle 7 kilograms of gold into Syria at the northern border town of al-Arida, the National News Agency reported.

According to NNA the car hold a Lebanese license plate.

Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed confidence on Saturday that the Lebanese are able to foil the plans that aim at spreading sedition and strife among them.

“The Lebanese people are able to overcome the challenges and foil plans to create discord and conflicts among them,” al-Maliki said in a letter sent to his Lebanese counterpart Najib Miqati.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati postponed his scheduled visit to Turkey on Saturday to follow up the abduction of the 11 pilgrims in Syria.

“I have decided to postpone my visit as the contacts and the efforts to release the abducted Lebanese are still ongoing,” Miqati said in a statement issued by his press office.

Advisor to the Turkish president, Irshad Hormuzlu, denied on Saturday reports that Turkey had informed Lebanese authorities that the 11 Lebanese pilgrims abducted in Syria have entered Turkey, reported Voice of Lebanon radio.

He told VDL: “There is no definite information that they have entered Turkey.”