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Rai to meet South #Lebanon Army collaborators while on pastoral trip to occupied #Palestine
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Maronite Patriarch #Beshara_al-Rai. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi) #Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi)

Cardinal Beshara al-Rai, the head of the Maronite Church, has insisted on going ahead with his pastoral visit to occupied Palestine. Rai says he wants to meet with his parishioners face to face, although he has used teleconferencing before, to address Maronite youths in #Nazareth, on February 15, 2013.

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Will the Vatican ask al-Rai to reconsider his trip?
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Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, head of the #maronite_church. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi) Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, head of the Maronite Church. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi)

#Israel does not recognize Jerusalem as being Palestinian. According to the Zionists, this land is their capital and they want their counterparts to thank them for allowing them to live on its eastern outskirts. Visiting the occupied lands is only possible by complying with the occupation authorities, who are in charge of letting people in or keeping them out. No matter by whom, such visits could be used to promote normalization in any case, especially if the visitor is an Arab. So how about if the visitor was the head of the Church of Antioch and All the East? (...)

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#As-Safir: #Maronite head’s visit to #jerusalem a “historic sin”
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A visit to Israeli-occupied Jerusalem by the patriarch of the Lebanon-based Maronite church to greet Pope Francis would be a “historic sin,” a leading secular newspaper said Saturday. Patriarch #Beshara_al-Rai, whose church is the largest Christian denomination in Lebanon, told AFP on Friday he would travel to the Holy Land to welcome the pontiff during his brief May 24-26 visit. In doing so, he would be the first patriarch to do so since the 1948 Nakba. In response, the leading Arab nationalist daily As-Safir ran a critical piece headlined “Historic sin: Rai goes to Israel.” read more

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