Today, during the audience with the assembly of Riunione delle Opere per l’Aiuto alle Chiese Orientali (Roaco), Benedict XVI launched an appeal again "to the leaders of the Nations, to offer the Middle East, especially the Land of Jesus, Lebanon and Iraq, a longed-for peace and social stability, in accordance with the fundamental human rights, including a real religious freedom". "After all, peace stated the Pontiff is the only way to face also the serious problem of the refugees and evacuees and to stop emigration, specially that of Christians, which heavily hurts the Eastern Churches". During the meeting, Benedict XVI did not fail to thank Roaco "for the precious support offered to the peculiar mission of the Bishop of Rome to preside over universal charity" and remember the Catholic communities in Armenia and Georgia, the condition of which was the focus of part of the assembly meeting. In addition, the Pope expressed the wish that Lebanon "may be able to bravely respond to its bent for being, for the Middle East, a sign of the actual possibility of a peaceful, constructive cohabitation of people". ” “
