Patriarch al-Rahi calls for sitting at dialogue table in Syria

Cardinal Mar Bechara al-Rahi, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of Maronite Church, called upon the Lebanese authorities to ensure the Lebanese territories be not used as a crossing for smuggling weapons into Syria or as posts for launching attacks against it. In a message addressed on the occasion of Easter, Cardinal al-Rahi urged those who "go on with destroying citizens, institutions, killing of innocents and displacing people in Syria to lay down arms and money they are supplied with by external sides who seek Syria's destruction." He reiterated his call for those to "courageously sit at the dialogue table to solve the crisis."