Spring to Winter

TV screens filled with people in reports from Arab countries make it is easy to forget more remain unseen. To those the Maronite Patriarch, Beshara al-Rai, called attention. He also confirmed that what is happening in Syria worries Lebanese.

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“Rai said Lebanese were

 divided by events across the border, and he feared the shock-waves could have an impact in Lebanon, home to Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims, Maronite and Orthodox Christians, Druzes and Alawites—the same sect as Assad.”       Read more from Reuters.