VATICAN CITY, 11 MAY 2008 (VIS) - After today's Regina Coeli prayer, the Holy Father launched an appeal for peace in Lebanon.
"Over recent days I have followed events in Lebanon with great concern", he said. "There the stalled political initiative was followed first by verbal violence then by armed clashes which have left many dead and injured. Although in the last few hours tension has eased, I feel it incumbent upon me today to exhort the Lebanese to abandon the logic of aggressive confrontation, which would lead their dear country to irreversible consequences.
"Dialogue, mutual understanding and the search for reasonable compromise are the only way to give Lebanon back its institutions and its people back the security necessary for a dignified daily life, rich in hope for tomorrow.
"May Lebanon, by the intercession of Our Lady of Lebanon, respond courageously to its vocation to be, for the Middle East and for the entire world, a sign of the real possibility of peaceful and constructive coexistence among mankind. The country's various communities are, ... at one and the same time, 'an element of originality, of richness, and of difficulty. But making Lebanon live is the shared duty of all its inhabitants'".
ANG/APPEAL LEBANON/... VIS 20080512 (210)
"Over recent days I have followed events in Lebanon with great concern", he said. "There the stalled political initiative was followed first by verbal violence then by armed clashes which have left many dead and injured. Although in the last few hours tension has eased, I feel it incumbent upon me today to exhort the Lebanese to abandon the logic of aggressive confrontation, which would lead their dear country to irreversible consequences.
"Dialogue, mutual understanding and the search for reasonable compromise are the only way to give Lebanon back its institutions and its people back the security necessary for a dignified daily life, rich in hope for tomorrow.
"May Lebanon, by the intercession of Our Lady of Lebanon, respond courageously to its vocation to be, for the Middle East and for the entire world, a sign of the real possibility of peaceful and constructive coexistence among mankind. The country's various communities are, ... at one and the same time, 'an element of originality, of richness, and of difficulty. But making Lebanon live is the shared duty of all its inhabitants'".
ANG/APPEAL LEBANON/... VIS 20080512 (210)
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