Toch nog een kerkleider die zich niet laat intimideren door booslims:
Citaat:
The Lebanese news media have been in a frenzy this past week after it became known that the leader of the Maronite Church in Lebanon is set to visit Israel as part of a delegation of clergy that will welcome Pope Francis to the Holy Land later this month, Israel Radio reported on Saturday.
Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, who was elected head of the Church in 2011, stood defiant as news editorials attacked him for the planned trip. “The pope is coming to the Holy Land and I am the one who should welcome him... It is part of my prerogative as a patriarch of the Antioch and the Levant to go there,” the English-language newspaper The Daily Star quoted him as saying.
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http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-P...rusalem-351837