Visit to the Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Al-Rai

His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II visited His Beatitude Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rai, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and All the East at the Maronite Patriarchal Residence in Bkerke.
His Holiness was accompanied by their Eminences Mor Theophilus Georges Saliba, Archbishop of Mount Lebanon and Tripoli, Mor Justinus Boulos Safar, Patriarchal Vicar of Zahleh and Beqaa, Mor Clemis Daniel Kourieh, Metropolitan of Beirut, Mor Chrysostomos Michael Shemoun, Patriarchal Vicar of the Patriarchal Benevolent Institutions in Atchaneh, Mor Yacoub Eduardo, Patriarchal Vicar in Central America, Very Rev. Raban Joseph Bali, Patriarchal Secretary and Media Office Director, and Very Rev. Raban Carlos Babi.
His Holiness discussed with His Beatitude the situation of Christians in the Middle East and the rights of the Syriac in Lebanon to have proper parliamentarian representation.
His Holiness also invited His Beatitude to the General Syriac Conference which will discuss the presence of Christians in the Middle East and their future in their homeland.

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