Al-Rai urges “fight to restore Lebanon’s identity”



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Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Shepherd urged the Lebanese to “fight” to restore their “original identity as civil society”, refusing to “legislate or cover the presence of any illegal weapon alongside the Lebanese army.”

Al-Rahi said yesterday in Sunday’s sermon: “The people are hostage to the struggles of the people of power who took Lebanese hostages and did not release them despite all the popular appeals and international appeals … We do not understand how the authority makes the state an enemy of its people. “

The Maronite Patriarch added: “The people of Lebanon, with their young and old, from all regions and affiliations, have demonstrated through their uprising that they are a people who deserve their homeland, but they are called to fight for Lebanon to recover. its origin. identity as civil society, and for the creation of a new national leadership system capable of taking responsibility for this: the ancestral homeland, the dominance of its state and the leadership of its people towards highness, prosperity, stability and neutrality. Al-Rahi renewed the call for an international conference on Lebanon, saying: “If officials, due to a lack of trust, cannot sit together to address the points of contention that accumulated until today’s final explosion, then a Under the international conference it is necessary to resort to the auspices of the United Nations, to carry out this treatment, as happened in previous circumstances.

The pastor expressed his support for the military establishment, saying: “The army is one of this people and it is not allowed to put it in the face of its people. And the army is part of this legitimacy, and it has no right to neglect its needs and ignore the data of its leadership and the feelings of its officers and soldiers. The army is the legitimate force entrusted with the responsibility of defending Lebanon. You are not allowed to legislate or cover the presence of any illegal weapon along with your own.




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