Sfeir: “Father, Forgive them, for They Don”t Know what They”re Doing”

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir on Thursday responded to the vehement verbal attacks on him by quoting the Bible verse: “Father, forgive them, for they don”t know what they are doing.”

 

“Anything is possible in this unfortunate period we are living,” Sfeir told reporters from Bkirki.

 

“This is not the first time and will not be the last,” Sfeir added.

 

“We have not forgotten what happened to us during the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 90s,” he said.

 

His remarks were apparent response to Marada Movement leader Suleiman Franjieh and Free Patriotic Movement boss Gen. Michel Aoun who have strongly attacked the prelate.

 

Franjieh on Wednesday urged Sfeir to resign, while Aoun had dubbed him “just an ordinary citizen who has the right to express his opinion.”