2012-07-03 19:07:56

Details of Pope's trip to Lebanon announced


July 03, 2012: Pope Benedict XVI will make a 3-days pastoral visit to from 14 to 16 September, the Vatican announced on Tuesday. It said the Pope will visit the Basilica of St Paul in Harissa, and also sign the exhortation of the Post-Apostolic Synod special Assembly for the middle East on his first day.

On September 15, the Pontiff will pay a courtesy visit to the President of the Republic. He will also have private meeting with the President of the Republic, President of the Parliament, and the President of the Council of Ministers in the Hall of the Ambassadors of the Presidential Palace in Baabda.

The Pope will then meet the heads of Muslim religious communities in the Hall of the Ambassadors of the Presidential Palace in Baabda. Late he will meet with members of the government, the diplomatic corps, the head of religious and representatives of the world culture.

The Pontiff will lunch with the Patriarchs and Bishops of Lebanon, with members of the Council Special to the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops and Papal Entourage
in the Refectory of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate Bzommar.

In the evening the Pope will meeting with Youth in the square in front of the Maronite Patriarchate.
On Sunday, September 16, the Pontiff will celebrate Holy Mass and deliver his Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation for the Middle East in Beirut City. Later he will attend an Ecumenical meeting in honor of the Syrian Catholic Patriarchate of Charfet and leave for Rome.








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