Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of Maronite Catholics, has welcomed the election of a new Lebanese president, which ended a two-and-a-half-year power vacuum that had crippled the country’s institutions of government.
Cardinal Rai also expressed his hope for the acceleration of a unified government and “direct action to save Lebanon from the political, economic and social suffering.”
The cardinal urged newly elected President Michel Aoun and other politicians to heed the words of the apostle Paul, to forget what lies behind and to forge ahead to the future.
