Patriarch John X receiving the Metropolitans of…



2024-06-05
Patriarch John from Balamand
“We call on everyone, beginning with the authorities, to assume full national responsibility and elect a president of the republic as soon as possible.”
Balamand, June 5, 2024
 
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and all the East JohnX stressed the need for everyone, beginning with the authorities, to bear the responsibility of electing a president of the republic as soon as possible. His Beatitude’s words came when he received Bishops Elias Audi (Beirut), Elias Kfoury (Tyre and Sidon), Silouan Moussa (Mount Lebanon), Basilios Mansour (Akkar), Ephrem Kyriakos (Tripoli and Koura), and Antonios Soury (Zahle and Baalbek), at the Saint John of Damascus Institute. In Balamand. The meeting touched on the general church situation of the Church and current issues in light of the challenges that Lebanon is facing.