Patriarch Rai Navigating the Delicate Situation in Bkerke

Saad Kiwan, 24/02 15:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Bechara Rai Hezbollah Nasrallah Sfeir Patriarch Bkerke Syria

It has been 14 years since Patriarch Bechara Rai assumed the seat of the Maronite Patriarchate, as he was elected on March 15, 2011 – shortly after the popular uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s bloody regime erupted in Syria. Rai succeeded Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir, who had resigned that same year, a month before Rai’s election. Sfeir had ...