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Patriarch Rai meets with SLA collaborators
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Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai (C) blesses Arab Israeli followers of the Maronite community during his visit to the Our Lady of Rosary Parish in the Old city of Acre in northern #Israel on May 29, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Menahem Kahana) Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai (C) blesses Arab Israeli followers of the Maronite community during his visit to the Our Lady of Rosary Parish in the Old city of Acre in northern Israel on May 29, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Menahem Kahana)

In the village of Kfar Nahum on the shores of Lake Tiberias, overlooking the southern Lebanese borders, Maronite #Patriarch_Beshara_al-Rai met yesterday evening with former members of the South #Lebanon Army (SLA)- Antoine Lahad’s militia that (...)

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Sleiman backs in Diman Rai’s remarks
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President Michel Sleiman fully backed Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai Thursday against March 14 Christian critics who lashed out at Rai over his controversial statements on Syria and Hezbollah’s arms. Sleiman paid a visit to the patriarch’s summer residence in Diman, Bsharri, as a traditional protocol visit made by a president just before the patriarch returns to Bkirki.

Rai is currently at the center of a political storm in the Christian heartland sparked by his statements in France.