Rahi Voices Calls for Ending Wars and Conflicts, Urges Refugees to Return Home

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi voiced calls on the international and Arab communities to work on ending wars all around the world and urged all the displaced to return to their homeland, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

Al-Rahi who is on a tour in the United States said: “I call on the International and Arab communities to put an end to wars in Middle Eastern countries.”

Speaking during a mass service in Boston, he urged said communities to “work on returning refugees, kidnapped and the displaced to their countries and to preserve their citizenship rights.”

Furthermore, the Patriarch voiced calls for “finding political and diplomatic solutions for world conflicts in order to bring a comprehensive and lasting peace to the region.”