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Vatican: Pope urges reconciliation in Lebanon

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Monday, 18 February 2008

Vatican City, 18 Feb. (AKI) - Pope Benedict XVI has called for dialogue and reconciliation between Lebanon's various religious and political forces. He made the appeal on Sunday after his Angelus address in St. Peter's Square in the Italian capital, Rome. "I am following the persistent manifestations of tension in Lebanon with concern", the Pope said. He condemned the "unusual verbal violence, and of people who place their trust in the force of arms and the physical elimination of their adversaries." The Lebanese army had to intervene in the capital, Beirut, over the weekend after Sunni and opposition Hezbollah allied Shia factions clashed in several neighbourhoods, leaving several people injured. There have been several similar outbreaks of fighting in Beirut in recent weeks at a time of acute political instability in Lebanon, with pro-Syrian and pro-Western parties locked in a power struggle. "For almost three months the country has been unable to elect a head of State," he noted. Ten days ago, the Lebanese parliament postponed for the fourteenth time a vote to elect pro-Syrian former president Emile Lahoud 's successor owing to divisions between the pro-Western ruling majority and pro-Syrian opposition. Lahoud ended his term of office last November. "Together with the Maronite patriarch and all Lebanese bishops, I ask you to join my prayer to Our Lady of Lebanon that she may encourage the citizens of that dear nation, and in particular the politicians, to work tenaciously for reconciliation, for a truly sincere dialogue, for peaceful coexistence and for the good of a homeland profoundly felt as being shared," the pontiff concluded.

 

 

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