Benedict in Lebanon peace plea
totalcatholic.comPosted on February 16, 2007
Pope Benedict XVI has implored the Lebanese people to reject violence after Tuesday’s bloody attack against two buses in the Christian town of Ein Alaq.
In a telegram sent in the Pope’s name by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone to Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, the Pope expressed “his spiritual closeness and prayer for the wounded and the victims’ families.”
The Pontiff entrusted “to divine mercy those who died tragically” and invoked “the maternal protection of the Virgin Mary for the whole Lebanese nation.”
He urged the Lebanese people and their leaders “to unanimously reject violence” and rediscover “the reasons for a drive in favour of unity and the common good.”
posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 7:03 PM
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