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Today Pope Benedict concluded the first day of his three-day journey to Lebanon. Below are excerpts from the three addresses the Holy Father delivered on Day One of the trip, starting with his Q&A with journalists on the Beirut-bound airplane, the full transcript of which can be read here.
Q: In the context of the wave of desire for democracy which is underway in many countries of the Middle East through the so-called Arab Spring, and given the social conditions in the majority of these countries where Christians are a minority, is there not a risk of inevitable tensions between the dominant majority and the survival of Christianity?