A Lebanese prelate has decried political and economic forces that prevent peace from being achieved in the Middle East, as the one-year anniversary of the Hamas terror attack on Israel sees the subsequent Gaza conflict expanding into a wider regional conflagration.
Speaking to journalists during an 5 October news briefing on the Synod of Bishops on Synodality, Bishop Mounir Khairallah of Batrun of the Maronites lamented that amid a surge of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon, “The world is quiet, it doesn’t say anything".
