Al-Rahi from South: No to war, yes to peace

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday toured several majority-Christian border towns in south Lebanon, where he called for peace rather than war.

“No to war and yes to peace,” said al-Rahi in the town of Debel, as he stressed that “the responsibility for achieving peace falls on citizens as well as on officials.”

“War is against all humans and it only brings destruction, ruin and displacement,” the patriarch added in the town of al-Qawzah, calling for “praying for a permanent and just peace for Lebanon.”

And in Ain Ebel he said: “We mourn the victims, our brothers in humanity, but we learn that was has never been the solution and we hope that it has ended and will not return.”