البابا فرنسيس: شباب لبنان علامة رجاء للشرق الأوسط والعالم كلّه

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أعرب البابا فرنسيس عن "شكره للشباب اللبنانيين الذين شاركوا في رتبة درب الصليب من خلال صلوات وتأملات اعدوها للمناسبة"، مردفاً أنه "في شباب لبنان علامة رجاء للشرق الاوسط والعالم كله".

وألقى البابا فرنسيس الجمعة، كلمة شكر فيها "الشبان اللبنانيين الذين شاركوا في الرتبة من خلال صلوات وتأملات اعدوها للمناسبة". وذلك في ختام رتبة درب الصليب التي شارك فيها حشد غفير من المؤمنين تراوح عددهم بين 15 الى 20 الف مؤمن في الكوليزيوم بروما.

واشار الى أنه لقد اصغينا في هذه الليلة الى شهادة اخوتنا اللبنانيين، فهم الذين أعدوا هذه التأملات والصلوات الجميلة، نشكرهم من كل قلوبنا على عملهم هذا وبالأخص على الشهادة التي يؤدونها"، مردفاً أن "في شباب لبنان علامة رجاء للشرق الاوسط والعالم كله".

واضاف البابا فرنسيس بحسب الترجمة العربية لكلمته كما اوردها موقع اذاعة الفاتيكان "لقد رأينا ذلك عندما زار لبنان البابا بنديكتوس السادس عشر في ايلول"، مضيفاً " رأينا جمال وقوة الشركة بين مسيحيي هذه الارض والصداقة بين الاخوة المسلمين. لقد كانت علامة رجاء للشرق الأوسط وللعالم بأسره".

وقبل استقالته هذه السنة، طلب بينيديكتوس الـ16 من البطريرك الماروني الكاردينال مار بشارة بطرس الراعي كتابة التأملات بالتعاون مع اثنين من الشبان اللبنانيين.

وقد أراد بذلك التركيز على مأساة الشرق الاوسط والحرب في سوريا وصعوبات التعايش بين المسلمين والمسيحيين وتنامي الحركات الاسلامية وهجرة عدد كبير من المسيحيين الى الغرب.

وحمل تلامذة لاهوت صينيون وعائلات ايطالية وراهبات من لبنان ونيجيريا، وشبان من البرازيل حيث ستعقد الايام العالمية للشبيبة في اخر تموز في حضور البابا فرنسيس، الصليب خلال طواف درب الصليب.

التعليقات 14
Thumb lebanon_first 10:41 ,2013 آذار 30

Bruce Lee. You are wrong. I am tired of this anti-christian propaganda.
Get the new facts Kiddo. Christians today are around 40%. And are the most educated if u follow the university enrolment rates. Chiites today are no more getting 6.61 children per woman, they are getting 2.1 on average. Also get in your mind that most emigration today is from moslems.
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/specialreports/lebanese-demographics-today

So get it out of your mind this idea that Lebanese christians will follow the fate of iraki christians. Our brothers Lebanese christians are here to stay, they have their region, they represent more than half the GDP in lebanon, they are the most educated, and they are not arming themselves because they beleive in the state. But nobody should mess around with them, and try to get them to leave, they will break his arm.

Thumb lebanon_first 12:05 ,2013 آذار 30

your source in wikipedia is written by ahmed ibrahim a known antichristian propagandist. In addition, your source is for 1991, before the big migration of chiites in the 90s and the 2000s where around 600,000 lebanese emigrated, most of them chiites.
My source is actual statistics from lebanese civil states files. Not from a propagandist. And if you read carefully, it is a comparison between 1970 and 2009. It is not "data from the 50s" like you dismiss it.
So I ask you to read carefully the study and rejoice because:
1- Christians are a major part of lebanese.- despite the propaganda.
2- 2.1 children per woman for chiites in 2009 as opposed to 6.6 in 1970. You know what that means? Our brothers chiites who have been dragging lebanon down for years will slip out of poverty and create a new middle class.
Rejoice and cherish the christian community. Irak kicked out their christians and look at what a sorry excuse of a country they became.

Missing roger@10452 14:02 ,2013 آذار 30

ya brucelee, why dont you give it a rest with all your nonsense...it is Easter weekend!!!

Thumb beiruti 15:09 ,2013 آذار 30

I'll go with the CIA figures. Current Lebanese Population: 4,131,583 (July 2013 est.)
Muslim 59.7% (Shia, Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite or Nusayri), Christian 39% (Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, Coptic, Protestant),
other 1.3%

Thumb stalin 00:19 ,2013 آذار 31

CIA figures are an anti-christian......da da da

Thumb lebanon_first 16:04 ,2013 آذار 30

M14 sponsors Now. It doesnt mean that M14 wants to blow the christian numbers out of proportion.
The CIA factbook says the same thing. About 40% are christians in Lebanon. (see the post of Beiruti below).
Those who underreport the number of christians in lebanon are either 1-christian haters or 2-Christian expats who want to justify to their small soul why they left their country for a miserable existance abroad.

Thumb lebanon_first 16:22 ,2013 آذار 30

ouwette brother, ma badda hal2ad. i dont think bruce is a christian hater, he is just reading wrong statistics written by christian hating propagandists.
And lebanon is a MIXED country for moslems and christians who live together as brothers.

Default-user-icon Lebanese (ضيف) 16:49 ,2013 آذار 30

As a non-Christian and a Shiite, you couldn't be wrong. We are so sick and tired of you fundamentalists, from Iraq and now to Syria and this forum, fundamentalists are blatantly killing and attacking minorities, whether it be Shiite Mosques or Chaldean Churches or now the so-called "religious courts" in Aleppa. Christians are 40% and in my opinion I wish they were 90%, they are the only buffer form this wave of fantacism that is taking over. Anyway they represent 50% of the power in this country, and in the absence of any census, I say the Muslims are 40% --- how's that?

Thumb LEBhasNOhope 00:47 ,2013 آذار 31

I'm absolutely sure you were dropped on your head as a child.

Thumb LEBhasNOhope 00:48 ,2013 آذار 31

Happy Easter to all and to the hope that one day we all stand united as Lebanese and not segregated as sectarians. Long live Lebanon and the people of Lebanon.

Thumb LebCynic 04:08 ,2013 آذار 31

lebanonfirst - Amen brother.

Default-user-icon Robert (ضيف) 12:34 ,2013 نيسان 13

I would say that Lebanese are the worse people in the world. They are gready,liers,cheaders,egoists,selfish,they are the devils on this earth and if there will not be Lebanese in this world the World would have been much more nicer you are like your nighbors in the South the same blood.

Thumb music66 12:35 ,2013 نيسان 14

wallah your are right, muslim and Christians are all LEBANESE. religion is a personal belief no body Else business what you practice in your home and what I practice in my home is my business. 100% correct. Underneath we all bleed the same color blood. I hope lebanon gets its act together the lebanese diaspora would love that around the world and lebanon will flourish with tourism and love.

Thumb music66 02:44 ,2013 نيسان 15

What a horrible thing to say Robert. Very racist comment. Have you not learnt that there are good and bad in every nationality. Sad your views are very negative.