OBISPOS MARONITAS ALZAN SU VOZ

 

Reunidos hoy  Mièrcoles 3 en Bkirki, el Consejo de Obispos Maronitas hizo un llamado a la unidad a los polìticos libaneses, solicitando una inmediata elecciòn del Presidente.

Los obispos entienden que la demora causada debilita la fràgil economìa libanesa asì como su tejido social

Entienden que facciones de partidos que sirven a projectos extranjeros se benefician de esta situaciò. 

Maronite bishops slam use of crisis to help 'foreign projects'
Church leadership repeats call to fill presidency
By Maroun Khoury
Daily Star correspondent
Thursday, March 06, 2008
BKIRKI: The Council of Maronite Bishops, following its monthly meeting in Bkirki on Wednesday, slammed the delay in electing a new head of state, calling on all the country's political parties to work together to overcome the obstacles impeding the presidential election. Chaired by Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir, the bishops' statement said: "The intentional slowdown in electing a new president after calling parliamentarians for a 15th parliamentary session is a matter that triggers surprise and wrath at the same time." "Electing a president is likely to put the country again on the track of progress and prosperity," the council said in a statement read out by Monsignor Youssef Tawk. The bishops also criticized the worsening political, social and economic situations wreaking havoc on the country. "As the political and socio-economic situation continues to deteriorate, feuding parties are still executing the projects they have drawn up with the interference of foreign forces," the council said. "Those projects do not seem to work in favor of the country. They aim to serve the interests of international, regional and factional forces at the expense of the country's interests," the bishop's statement read.
 
"This is unacceptable," the council added. The bishops said many Lebanese were expressing their concerns reguarily, "with no one answering their complaints." "Those people include the industrialists who are forced to dismiss their employees and close their businesses, farmers who complain about the absence of protection of their agricultural products and absence of compensation for the losses they incur due to natural disasters, in addition to owners of tourist institutions who are deprived of their source of income, thanks to the political and security conditions in the country," the council said. Earlier in the day, Sfeir met with former MPs Ghattas Khoury and Mansour Bon to discuss the latest developments in the country. No comments were released after the meeting. Sfeir also met with the vice president of the papal mission in the US, Monsignor John Fares, who also attended part of the bishops council's meeting.