Congratulating Muslims on Ramadan, Patriarch Lahham: the Arab world needs faith and morals

DAMASCUS,(ST)_ Patriarch of Antioch and All the East for the Greek Catholic Melkite Church Gregory III Laham has extended congratulations to the Muslims on the fall of the holy month of Ramadan, “the month of prayer, repentance, almsgiving, communication and compassion, and worship of the merciful God.”

” I congratulate my Muslim brothers on the holy month of Ramadan, in my name as an Arab Christian patriarch and on behalf of Christians Melkite Catholics in particular and Christians in general.” the Patriarch said in a statement yesterday.

Patriarch Gregorios III called in his statement for love against the scenes of “fragmentation, rivalry, division and the call for ” jihad, “which is not” jihad and fatwas which are only the smell of death, murder and terrorism. “

 He stressed that the Arab world needs faith, values and ethics as terms of our alliance and the Arab-inter Islamic unity and Muslim-Christian unity before the bloody tragic and fateful challenges that we are all facing. “

“Our alliance, political solutions, interests, peace, past and present should be all Arabs “Patriarch Gregorios III stressed, adding that there should be no room for one’s bullying over the other “.

He stressed that Arab Christians “will escort their Muslim brethren with prayer and, fasting, solidarity and compassion for the merciful God to remove this sorrow overwhelming the Arab world and restore back its safety,security, stability,peace of mind, tolerance, forgiveness, reconciliation, love and peace”.

T. Fateh