BEIRUT: In a speech at St. Joseph Church in Ashrafieh, Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai expressed his sadness over people's loss of trust in each other and in the political system, reported El Nashra.
“We suffer when we discover a loss of trust in politics and people,” Rai said in the presence of head of the Beirut Maronite Archdiocese Bishop Boulos Matar.
But he showed his pleasure in the diversity of Lebanon's capital, noting that the Beirut diocese is "exemplary" in this regard, "because we find in it all of the elements of society," adding that "our message in [Beirut] is one of participation and love."