Al-Rahi, Archbishop of Milan to Visit Erbil on Friday
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi is scheduled to travel to the Iraqi Kurdish region of Erbil on Friday to follow up the situation of Christians who have been displaced as a result of the Islamic State group's onslaught.
Al-Joumhouria daily said that al-Rahi will be accompanied during the one-day visit by the Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Angelo Scola, who arrived in Beirut on Wednesday, and several members of the Lebanese Council of Maronite Bishops.
The newspaper quoted Bkirki sources as saying that when al-Rahi informed the Vatican about his plan to visit Erbil, church officials sent Scola as an envoy to accompany the Maronite patriarch.
Their trip is aimed at stressing to the Christians in the region the Vatican's interest in solving the problems they are facing, said the sources.
Al-Rahi and Scola are scheduled to meet with top officials in Erbil and the heads of Christian churches, they added.
The patriarch last visited Erbil in August 2014.
18 June 2015, 14:07
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Shia, have you seen the convoys that now go every Saturday to visit Aoun? The word is no longer small, it's pathetically small. We're watching them, we're even counting them, for Aoun the jester claoun, this is the beginning of the end, he is sliding down, and at the end of the slide guess what's there waiting for him?
