CWN reported on August 26, 2013: The leader of the Maronite Catholic Church has told Vatican Radio that “outside countries, especially in the West but also elsewhere, are helping to foment” conflicts in Egypt, Iraq, and Syria, according to a Vatican Radio summary of his remarks. Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï “spoke of his belief that there is a plan to destroy the Arab world for political and economic interests,” according to the summary, as well his belief in “a plan to exacerbate as much as possible the inter-confessional conflicts between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The Maronite Patriarch said he had already written to the Pope to express his concern about this issue on two occasions.” Cardinal Raï added that the situation in the Middle East is worsening, that “whenever a conflict breaks out in the Middle East, whenever chaos ensues, Muslim groups attack the minority Christian community, as if they were always the scapegoat,” that Christians oppose the Muslim Brotherhood’s attempts to introduce Sharia, and that Christians “want a reformed and democratic Egypt, an Egypt that knows how to respect human rights,” according to the summary.
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:56:02 +0000
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