VATICAN, (ST)_ Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai was created as a cardinal along with other five cardinals during a ceremony presided by Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican on Saturday.
Pope Benedict XVI promoted Patriarch Rai to the rank of cardinal, The National News Agency of Lebanon reported.
Pope Benedict XVI took the universality of the Church as the theme of his allocution to the participants in the Consistory.
I. Zaaboub