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Pope’s visit: Lebanon declares Sept.15 an official holiday

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Lebanon Prime Minister Najib Mikati declared Saturday September 15 as an official holiday on the occasion of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Lebanon.

“Saturday, September 15 is an official holiday and all public administrations, institutions and municipalities, as well as private and public schools and universities, will be closed for the pope’s official visit,” said a statement by the Prime Minister

He said the decision was made to allow the various sections of the population to take part in welcoming the pope.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to greet the pope when he arrives for a three-day visit next Friday.

Hezbollah welcomes Pope’s visit

During a meeting with Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai at his summer residence in Diman, Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad welcomed Thursday the Pope’s visit

“We expressed our complete readiness to welcome the pope and all Lebanese are looking forward to his visit,” Raad said.

Commenting on his meeting with Patriarch Rai, Raad said:

“Our opinions are very close and Patriarch Rai always focuses on restoring calm and stability in the country … Such visits are meant to bolster stability in Lebanon ”

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52 responses to “Pope’s visit: Lebanon declares Sept.15 an official holiday”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Talk about poor old Jumblatt changing his opinions …. Raad talks out both sides of his head in the same day.
    How can wanting constant war against Jews and being on-side with Bashar’s methods fall in line somewhere in his fat head with with ‘welcoming the pope’ – the top man of ‘peace’??
    Raad isn’t ‘bolstering stability’ … he’s playing the politics, figuring that Christians are more willing to ‘turn the other cheek’ … always.

    1. breakthemould Avatar
      breakthemould

       Will they close their schools in Dahieh? and shops and the small butcher shop and manqoosheh will they stop to celebrate the arrival of the Pope in Dahieh. It is national acc to Mikatie

    2. Winston Blake Avatar
      Winston Blake

      “Spread the other cheek” is a philosophy for faggots…

      1. Hannibal Avatar
        Hannibal

        And spreading your legs is your philosophy… Ha Ha Ha

      2. Mark Avatar
        Mark

        Admin–clearly Winston Blake is a troll. These comments are unrelated to the discussion and meant to be disruptive. Please cut him off. YaLibnan suffers when people like this are allowed to continue posting.

        1. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          @yalibnan:disqus  I second that… Winston Blake is a real “noise”… Bye Bye Loserston!

        2. Winston Blake Avatar
          Winston Blake

          You suck shit covered donkey cocks…

        3. Winston Blake Avatar
          Winston Blake

          You suck shit covered donkey cocks…

        4. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          i am not here to defend blake but i believe, by reviewing the history, that hanibal was very rude impolite and cussed him very harshly first; blake just retaliated. unfortunately in this blog, saoudi dependant bloggers agglomerate and locate anti saoudi intruders and the blog, run by saoudi money facilitates it. i do not blame the administrators for allowing the blog to survive on saoudi money: saoudi has money but lacks the know how; i blame them for spoiling the name of Lebanon and reducing Lebanon to a kinda saoudi island; i would suggest to change the name of the blog to yasaoudyya

        5. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          i am not here to defend blake but i believe, by reviewing the history, that hanibal was very rude impolite and cussed him very harshly first; blake just retaliated. unfortunately in this blog, saoudi dependant bloggers agglomerate and locate anti saoudi intruders and the blog, run by saoudi money facilitates it. i do not blame the administrators for allowing the blog to survive on saoudi money: saoudi has money but lacks the know how; i blame them for spoiling the name of Lebanon and reducing Lebanon to a kinda saoudi island; i would suggest to change the name of the blog to yasaoudyya

      3. Hannibal Avatar
        Hannibal

        And spreading your legs is your philosophy… Ha Ha Ha

      4. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        “If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.” — G. K. Chesterton

        As far as the Hindu-friendly idiot ‘Blake’ is concerned, I don’t think we’ve seen a valid opinion of any kind yet, I doubt we will, and I doubt the character would be viewed favourably anywhere – if there’s any ‘character’ in the bone-head at all.
        Didn’t YaLibnan just get rid of one of these trolls who burst in from nowhere and begin to trash a site? Is it the same one? They DO like to become instant enemies, don’t they? You can see them on YouTube all the time.
        Of course, he could be just a simple ‘skin-head’ or ‘white supremist’ … they usually are simple … one can almost imagine the tattooed symbols with the ‘in-your-face’ unwarranted aggression against anything.
        Words are not really the problem … everyone knows words. But Blake is here for his own aggrandisement, and a feeble attempt at recognition, which simply aggravates everyone by his methodology – although I’m sure he has his targets picked.
        At some point soon, he will be the target.

        1. Winston Blake Avatar
          Winston Blake

          You are a faggot lover of Sodom Hussein Obama…

        2. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          atheists are of two types: the casual atheist who does not really care about God or who has doubts about it and the more dangerous believer in the absence of god; this latter has a religion which worships the absence of God

        3. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          i believe i uncovered your modus operandus in this blog: you send a retriever namely hanibal in order to catch your prey; then you flock all together in a herd like fashion around the prey in order to devour it

        4. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          5th you are therefore appointed as my personal lawyer… LOL

      5. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        “If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.” — G. K. Chesterton

        As far as the Hindu-friendly idiot ‘Blake’ is concerned, I don’t think we’ve seen a valid opinion of any kind yet, I doubt we will, and I doubt the character would be viewed favourably anywhere – if there’s any ‘character’ in the bone-head at all.
        Didn’t YaLibnan just get rid of one of these trolls who burst in from nowhere and begin to trash a site? Is it the same one? They DO like to become instant enemies, don’t they? You can see them on YouTube all the time.
        Of course, he could be just a simple ‘skin-head’ or ‘white supremist’ … they usually are simple … one can almost imagine the tattooed symbols with the ‘in-your-face’ unwarranted aggression against anything.
        Words are not really the problem … everyone knows words. But Blake is here for his own aggrandisement, and a feeble attempt at recognition, which simply aggravates everyone by his methodology – although I’m sure he has his targets picked.
        At some point soon, he will be the target.

        1. Winston Blake Avatar
          Winston Blake

          You are a faggot lover of Sodom Hussein Obama…

        2. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          atheists are of two types: the casual atheist who does not really care about God or who has doubts about it and the more dangerous believer in the absence of god; this latter has a religion which worships the absence of God

        3. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          i believe i uncovered your modus operandus in this blog: you send a retriever namely hanibal in order to catch your prey; then you flock all together in a herd like fashion around the prey in order to devour it

        4. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          5th you are therefore appointed as my personal lawyer… LOL

    3. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
      nayyashAl3arab

      exactly like the fat heads of those who support the salafis, which are allied to israel, yet they want to fight israel! so now please give me your explanation please before i classify you fat head according to your own dire. Its high time you understand this is arabic mentality, cheap, very cheap indeed

      1. Hannibal Avatar
        Hannibal

        Stop accusing this site of being salafi or wahabi or zionist at every turn of event. We know your identity. You used to be bs#### then you became slick then hanni something. You are the same cancer that keeps spurting here and there with personal vendettas. Consider visiting a psychiatrist for anger management. Tell him your anger stems from a story that happened some thousand years and some ago when an imam was slaughtered and now you are trying to avenge him. He will have you committed to 3asfouriyeh.

        1. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          i wonder if the administrators of this blog are present or absent and how do they allow such personal attacks; let me give you a tip: if they do not block you, i will make sure you  will soon need real lawyers particularly if you live in USA.

        2. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          @nayyashAl3arab:disqus GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY!!! I am going to need real lawyers? why are there fake lawyers where you live? You must be jumping up and down with anger. Did you consider a consulto (a group of psychiatrists) for your anger problem? Hey dude I will meet you anytime anywhere just tell me where man to man so I will kick your sorry malnourished ass. I am from Akkar six foot tall and full of muscles not from the da7yeh a shrimp like you full of farts.

      2. Hannibal Avatar
        Hannibal

        Stop accusing this site of being salafi or wahabi or zionist at every turn of event. We know your identity. You used to be bs#### then you became slick then hanni something. You are the same cancer that keeps spurting here and there with personal vendettas. Consider visiting a psychiatrist for anger management. Tell him your anger stems from a story that happened some thousand years and some ago when an imam was slaughtered and now you are trying to avenge him. He will have you committed to 3asfouriyeh.

        1. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          i wonder if the administrators of this blog are present or absent and how do they allow such personal attacks; let me give you a tip: if they do not block you, i will make sure you  will soon need real lawyers particularly if you live in USA.

        2. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          @nayyashAl3arab:disqus GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY!!! I am going to need real lawyers? why are there fake lawyers where you live? You must be jumping up and down with anger. Did you consider a consulto (a group of psychiatrists) for your anger problem? Hey dude I will meet you anytime anywhere just tell me where man to man so I will kick your sorry malnourished ass. I am from Akkar six foot tall and full of muscles not from the da7yeh a shrimp like you full of farts.

      3. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Well, basically, I was just looking at his head. 😉

        1. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          mmmm; maybe you are right; eyes alone allow one to see; as far as interpretation is concerned, you need some brains. i am glad you stopped at the sight level, lower central nervous system function; upper neurons are needed and lacking for interpretation. maybe you can send the picture to more intelligent people to interpret, only then you might get a better picture of what you see

      4. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Well, basically, I was just looking at his head. 😉

        1. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          mmmm; maybe you are right; eyes alone allow one to see; as far as interpretation is concerned, you need some brains. i am glad you stopped at the sight level, lower central nervous system function; upper neurons are needed and lacking for interpretation. maybe you can send the picture to more intelligent people to interpret, only then you might get a better picture of what you see

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Talk about poor old Jumblatt changing his opinions …. Raad talks out both sides of his head in the same day.
    How can wanting constant war against Jews and being on-side with Bashar’s methods fall in line somewhere in his fat head with with ‘welcoming the pope’ – the top man of ‘peace’??
    Raad isn’t ‘bolstering stability’ … he’s playing the politics, figuring that Christians are more willing to ‘turn the other cheek’ … always.

    1. breakthemould Avatar
      breakthemould

       Will they close their schools in Dahieh? and shops and the small butcher shop and manqoosheh will they stop to celebrate the arrival of the Pope in Dahieh. It is national acc to Mikatie

    2. Winston Blake Avatar
      Winston Blake

      “Spread the other cheek” is a philosophy for faggots…

      1. Hannibal Avatar
        Hannibal

        And spreading your legs is your philosophy… Ha Ha Ha

      2. Mark Avatar
        Mark

        Admin–clearly Winston Blake is a troll. These comments are unrelated to the discussion and meant to be disruptive. Please cut him off. YaLibnan suffers when people like this are allowed to continue posting.

        1. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          @yalibnan:disqus  I second that… Winston Blake is a real “noise”… Bye Bye Loserston!

        2. Winston Blake Avatar
          Winston Blake

          You suck shit covered donkey cocks…

        3. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          i am not here to defend blake but i believe, by reviewing the history, that hanibal was very rude impolite and cussed him very harshly first; blake just retaliated. unfortunately in this blog, saoudi dependant bloggers agglomerate and locate anti saoudi intruders and the blog, run by saoudi money facilitates it. i do not blame the administrators for allowing the blog to survive on saoudi money: saoudi has money but lacks the know how; i blame them for spoiling the name of Lebanon and reducing Lebanon to a kinda saoudi island; i would suggest to change the name of the blog to yasaoudyya

      3. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        “If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.” — G. K. Chesterton

        As far as the Hindu-friendly idiot ‘Blake’ is concerned, I don’t think we’ve seen a valid opinion of any kind yet, I doubt we will, and I doubt the character would be viewed favourably anywhere – if there’s any ‘character’ in the bone-head at all.
        Didn’t YaLibnan just get rid of one of these trolls who burst in from nowhere and begin to trash a site? Is it the same one? They DO like to become instant enemies, don’t they? You can see them on YouTube all the time.
        Of course, he could be just a simple ‘skin-head’ or ‘white supremist’ … they usually are simple … one can almost imagine the tattooed symbols with the ‘in-your-face’ unwarranted aggression against anything.
        Words are not really the problem … everyone knows words. But Blake is here for his own aggrandisement, and a feeble attempt at recognition, which simply aggravates everyone by his methodology – although I’m sure he has his targets picked.
        At some point soon, he will be the target.

        1. Winston Blake Avatar
          Winston Blake

          You are a faggot lover of Sodom Hussein Obama…

        2. Winston Blake Avatar
          Winston Blake

          You are a faggot lover of Sodom Hussein Obama…

        3. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          atheists are of two types: the casual atheist who does not really care about God or who has doubts about it and the more dangerous believer in the absence of god; this latter has a religion which worships the absence of God

        4. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          i believe i uncovered your modus operandus in this blog: you send a retriever namely hanibal in order to catch your prey; then you flock all together in a herd like fashion around the prey in order to devour it

        5. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          5th you are therefore appointed as my personal lawyer… LOL

    3. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
      nayyashAl3arab

      exactly like the fat heads of those who support the salafis, which are allied to israel, yet they want to fight israel! so now please give me your explanation please before i classify you fat head according to your own dire. Its high time you understand this is arabic mentality, cheap, very cheap indeed

      1. Hannibal Avatar
        Hannibal

        Stop accusing this site of being salafi or wahabi or zionist at every turn of event. We know your identity. You used to be bs#### then you became slick then hanni something. You are the same cancer that keeps spurting here and there with personal vendettas. Consider visiting a psychiatrist for anger management. Tell him your anger stems from a story that happened some thousand years and some ago when an imam was slaughtered and now you are trying to avenge him. He will have you committed to 3asfouriyeh.

        1. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          i wonder if the administrators of this blog are present or absent and how do they allow such personal attacks; let me give you a tip: if they do not block you, i will make sure you  will soon need real lawyers particularly if you live in USA.

        2. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          @nayyashAl3arab:disqus GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY!!! I am going to need real lawyers? why are there fake lawyers where you live? You must be jumping up and down with anger. Did you consider a consulto (a group of psychiatrists) for your anger problem? Hey dude I will meet you anytime anywhere just tell me where man to man so I will kick your sorry malnourished ass. I am from Akkar six foot tall and full of muscles not from the da7yeh a shrimp like you full of farts.

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Well, basically, I was just looking at his head. 😉

        1. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
          nayyashAl3arab

          mmmm; maybe you are right; eyes alone allow one to see; as far as interpretation is concerned, you need some brains. i am glad you stopped at the sight level, lower central nervous system function; upper neurons are needed and lacking for interpretation. maybe you can send the picture to more intelligent people to interpret, only then you might get a better picture of what you see

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