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| December 18, 2012
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Pope tells Abbas of Vatican’s hope for Palestinian State

 

Palestinian Authority president touring Europe, thanking countries that supported a de facto recognition of a Palestinian state in the U.N. General Assembly.

Abbas also met with Italian PM Mario Monti, who also expressed support for a Palestinian state.

By Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Pope Benedict XVI told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday the Vatican hoped the recent de facto recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations would spur the international community to find a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Pope Benedict held private talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for about 25 minutes in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Monday.

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| September 14, 2012
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Lebanon Maronite Christians feel besieged ahead of Pope Benedict’s visit

Pope Leo X in 1510 called Lebanon’s Christians a “rose” among “infidels, schismatics & heretics”; Excitement over the Pope’s visit have replaced fear among Christians for now.

By REUTERS

 

BEIRUT – In 1510, Pope Leo X thanked Divine Providence for having preserved the Maronite Christians through the hardest of times, “planted among infidels, schismatics and heretics as in a field of error.”

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he gives Urbi et Orbi - Photo: REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he gives Urbi et Orbi – Photo: REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

He described them as a “rose among thorns, an impregnable rock in the sea, unshaken by the waves and fury of the thundering tempest.”

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