Pope Benedict urged multi-faith Lebanon yesterday to be a model of peace and religious co-existence for the turbulent Middle East.
The pope, on the second day of a visit clouded by war in neighbouring Syria and protests across the Muslim world, told a gathering of Lebanese political, religious and cultural leaders that religious freedom was a basic right for all people.
Lebanon – torn apart by a 1975-1990 sectarian civil war – is a religious mosaic of over four million people. The majority are Muslim, though one-third of the population are Christians.
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