Two pro-Hizbollah newspapers criticise the patriarch’s decision to travel to Jerusalem to meet the pope, calling it an “historic sin”. For others, the controversy shows “bad faith” because it is “unthinkable” for the patriarch not to welcome the pope in his diocese.
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