WASHINGTON - News of the detention in Lebanon of Maronite Archbishop Moussa El-Hage, O.A.M. last month, as he was returning from a routine visit to his Episcopal See in Haifa and the Holy Land, has caused great concern. In solidarity with Patriarch Bechara Boutros Cardinal Raï and the Maronite Church, Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on International Justice and Peace, issued the following statement:"The arbitrary detention and interrogation of Archbishop Moussa El-Hage, the Maronite Archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land, by Lebanese security, is cause for alarm. The archbishop was returning from one of his regular visits to the Holy Land and bringing much needed aid that the Lebanese diaspora in Israel wanted to send to family members in Lebanon. All this was confiscated by Lebanese security forces, along with his cell phone and passport."The Permanent Synod of Maronite Bishops, at a July 20 meeting convened
News of the detention in Lebanon of Maronite Archbishop Moussa El-Hage, O.A.M. last month, as he was returning from a routine visit to his Episcopal See in Haifa and the Holy Land, has caused great concern.
Lebanon's Maronite Christian community is angry and concerned over the arrest and interrogation of their Archbishop Musa al-Hajj in his own country as he was returning from a trip to Israel, reports say.
Lebanon's Maronite Christian community is angry and concerned over the arrest and interrogation of their Archbishop Musa al-Hajj in his own country as he was returning from a trip to Israel, reports say.
Lebanon's Maronite Christian community is angry and concerned over the arrest and interrogation of their Archbishop Musa al-Hajj in his own country as he was returning from a trip to Israel, reports say.