The president of the Lebanese Republic general…

The president of the Lebanese Republic general Michel Aoun meets with His Beatitude John X accompanied by a delegation of orthodox metropolitans Nov. 4 – 2016

His Excellency the president of the Lebanese Republic general Michel Aoun received in the presidential palace at 11 o’clock a.m. at Beabda, His Beatitude John X the patriarch of Antioch and all the East with a delegation of archbishops , including: - His Eminence Elias Aude (of Beirut and dependencies). - His Eminence Elias Kfoury (of Saida, Tyre and dependencies). - His Eminence Basilios Mansour (of Akkar and dependencies).

After the meeting, His Beatitude John X gave the following statement:

“We have paid a visit to His Excellency the president of the Lebanese Republic general Michel Aoun in the name of the Antiochian Church with some orthodox brother metropolitans, to congratulate him on his being elected the president of the Lebanese Republic, and on the return of life to the presidential palace. We pray that the Lord may grant him health and power to lead the beloved Lebanon to peace and prosperity with all those working with him.

We, with all the Lebanese people, are looking forward to seeing a new page in Lebanon that is facing crises and difficulties of different kinds, political and economical as well that reach up to all the Lebanese people even in their daily food. We also pray for the Lebanese people to stay in homeland.

We hope that the Lebanese government will be soon constituted so as to see all the constitutional institutions functioning properly for the good of the country.

Our prayer and hope are to see a new workshop in which all efforts from all the spectra of the Lebanese society cooperate and work together for the good of Lebanon and the Lebanese.