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Friday, 14 September 2012

Holy Father, Cancel Your Visit Please

Now, the Yemen American embassy is under siege. Please, Holy Father, pray about this visit to Lebanon, please.

UPDATE: Violence in Lebanon over Pope's coming visit.

http://news.yahoo.com/crowd-lebanon-torches-kfc-anger-over-pope-visit-121651873.html

(These demonstrations have nothing to do with the movie and everything to do with 1683).


TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - One demonstrator was killed and two others were wounded in clashes with security forces in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday in protests over a film insulting the Muslim Prophet Mohammad and against the pope's visit to Lebanon.
A security source said the man was killed as protesters tried to storm a government building. Earlier, a U.S. fast food restaurant was set alight. Twelve members of the security forces were wounded by stones thrown by protesters, the source said.
The U.S.-made film has sparked violent protests in Libya, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, and in Egypt, Yemen and Sudan and there are fears the demonstrations could spread to other Muslim countries.
The protests coincided with Pope Benedict's arrival in Lebanon for a three-day visit.
Lebanese security forces had earlier opened fire after protesters torched a fast food restaurant in Tripoli and threw rocks at a state building, shouting anti-American slogans and chanting against the pope's visit to Lebanon.
A Reuters journalist at the scene saw hundreds of protesters dodging gunfire and teargas as they hurled stones at security forces in armored vehicles. Protesters chanted "We don't want the pope," and "No more insults (to Islam)".

2 comments:

New Sister said...

I'm glad he made the visit and have been watching some of his visit on EWTN. I do not find beautiful the Arabic language or Middle-Eastern music-and I've been around it some in the past (not new to my ears). Try as I might, as I recall the Holy Father asking us to know the other Catholic rites better, I am not able to grasp an appreciation for it.

But I do pray for these fast diminishing pockets of Christianity in the Middle East. I hope this visit renews zeal and turns young Arabs into Benedict XVI fans.

Supertradmum said...

New Sister, I have not had time to watch anything, but the Pope is very brave and loving to go.