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    Lebanon PM invites pope to visit, discusses Syria

    VATICAN CITY (AP) — Lebanon's prime minister has invited Pope Benedict XVI to visit his country, which the Vatican sees as an important symbol of religious coexistence in the Middle East.

    Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with Benedict for about 20 minutes Monday during an overnight visit to Rome that also included talks with the new Italian foreign minister.

    The Vatican said the discussions touched on the crisis in Syria and "the need for all parties to commit themselves to peaceful coexistence founded on justice, reconciliation and respect for the dignity of human beings and their inalienable rights."

    Members of Mikati's delegation said he extended an invitation to Benedict to visit Lebanon. There was no word from the Vatican, but such a trip has been rumored.

     
    • NotForNothingBut...  •  New York, United States  •  5 mths ago
      I wish Yahoo would come up with a way to improve this comment section. Most of these comments are dumb, inflammatory, and immature. I'm outta here.
    • GeorgeLC  •  San Antonio, United States  •  6 mths ago
      The pope's visit to Damascus showed his respect and he pleaded for comprehension and respect towards the different Christian groups of the Middle East. Some Christians in Syria still speak a variant of Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. The Baathist Party is Syria is secular, so they are less likely to favor fanatic Islamist groups, but their brutal repressions put themselves under judgement and could lead to a revolution led by radicals. The pope maybe can help in the region, but the US also has to reach out to the Baathists to prevent worse problems. Lebanon has a large Christian population still, the majority of them being Catholics of various traditions, so he could perhaps more influence there.
    • Royal Ron  •  Pleasanton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Good, maybe the pope can sort out matters and bring peace where the politicians failed!
      • NotForNothingBut... 6 mths ago
        Oh please...give me a break.
      • GeorgeLC 6 mths ago
        Let us hope he can influence people on the different sides towards Peace and Mutual Respect, things most commentators on this line know nothing of, including Anna, who's just one more Cynic we could do without.
      • Royal Ron 5 mths ago
        Anna is negative with no hope in her horizon!
    • Marshall Law Cle OH  •  Cleveland, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I wouldn't do that. It's a security nightmare. The non-Christian Lebanese miltias, Hezbollah and others would be very happy to murder a man who still represents to them the genocidal crusaders. They have a long memory.
      • GeorgeLC 6 mths ago
        You don't know your history very well. The Arab invaders of the Christian Middle East when it was the Byzantine Empire put hundreds of thousands to the sword. The Crusaders were originally invited through Pope Urban II to help the Byzantines to resist the Turkish hordes. Read and find out. Yes, there were terrible things done by the primitive European knights, just as there were terrible things done by the Muslim jihadists. Don't read some simpletonian history. Get full details.
    • larry Malik  •  6 mths ago
      God bless the pope a servant of the most HIGH
      • NATO 6 mths ago
        The word god is simply a reversed spelling of dog.
      • GeorgeLC 6 mths ago
        Funny, that Nato's true name is Dog, or is it Hund?
    • NotForNothingBut...  •  New York, United States  •  5 mths ago
      One more thing...the worst part is that some of you think you're so witty.
    • NotForNothingBut...  •  New York, United States  •  5 mths ago
      One more thing...the worst part is that some of you think you're so witty.
    • juan chavez  •  Guayaquil, Ecuador  •  5 mths ago
      invite the pope to your country and give him a few little boys for the night,,,,besides what do muslims care if their kids are raped by a petifial, while at it bring a few horney priests....
    • MT  •  Fremont, United States  •  6 mths ago
      shhh hide your kids pope is comming!
      • GeorgeLC 6 mths ago
        Another idiot bigot, but aren't they all idiots?
    • Isay Pha-Que  •  6 mths ago
      Maybe he will get car-bombed. Where the hell is hezzbolah when you really need them?
      • larry Malik 6 mths ago
        goat! that is what is about to kill u, i wish u are telling us ur dead...what a premonition...
      • Isay Pha-Que 5 mths ago
        LOL!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
    • NATO  •  Mechelen, Belgium  •  6 mths ago
      We can only hope that he will be burned at the stake.
    • NATO  •  Mechelen, Belgium  •  6 mths ago
      Imagine a World where no clergy had ever been born. I blame the parents of these turbulent priests.
    • tomas  •  Winston-Salem, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Pie in the sky! What really does the pope have to offer? Not much.
    • Mosul  •  6 mths ago
      The only reason anyone should talk to this Child abuser is that in Syria they are muslim men and they rape little boys and abuse women and play rump wrangler with sheep and goats and camels. Other than that who cares what he has to say. Until the Catholic church confesses all of their sins for thousands of years of boy rape and turn over alll the rapists they have protected no one cares what this group of little boy abusers has to say.
    • CeeCee  •  San Angelo, United States  •  6 mths ago
      The halls of the vatican palace run red with the blood of millions. Its chambers echo with the cries & screams of innocent children. The stench of its lies & evasions assault the nose. And its ill-gotten riches assault the eyes of all who behold them. Let us pluck from the dark sea of apathy & indifference the sword of righteous indignation & universal truth with its blade shining in the morning Light. Let us with great anger & furious vengeance wield its shining steel. Laying waste to the malignant tumor that is the roman catholic church. As it has been written so shall it be done.
    • NATO  •  5 mths ago
      "Most of these comments are dumb, inflammatory, and immature. I'm outta here."

      If inflammatory means that he and ALL his paedophile priests get burned at the stake then I want a flame thrower for Christmas.

      Or we could simply napalm the Vatican.

      Stop the Mafia holding their meetings there.
    • CeeCee  •  San Angelo, United States  •  5 mths ago
      The catholic church has massive, obscene wealth. It buys & sells votes. It controls people, religion, politics, commerce, & outcomes. The black market BABY business is also quite lucrative.
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