{"id":33559,"date":"2025-12-01T22:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=33559"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:32:20","slug":"lebanons-youth-thank-you-pope-leo-xiv-for-being-a-messenger-of-unity-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/lebanons-youth-thank-you-pope-leo-xiv-for-being-a-messenger-of-unity-and-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s youth: Thank you, Pope Leo XIV, for being a messenger of unity and peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonBeach-1024x798.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26372\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonBeach-1024x798.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonBeach-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonBeach-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LebanonBeach.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Today, Bambi was moved to the core by the images coming out of her birth county. As you can see in the brief <em>YouTube<\/em> video below, Pope Leo XIV received a WARM welcome by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everyone<\/span>, from all walks of life and religious backgrounds, especially by youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many old and young people travelled within the tiny country from ALL its different regions, including the destroyed south, to come to greet the Pope. Some even came from abroad while others visited from Syria and Irak, as he kindly acknowledged them all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Leo XVI embraced youth&#8217;s energy, listened to their inspiring stories or songs, and brought a breath of fresh air to all. He surely contributed to consolidate their faith, at the spiritual, human, civil, and universal levels. He also encouraged their loyalty for their country (i.e., asking them not to migrate anymore, if at all possible). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By emphasizing the values of kindness, forgiveness, interpersonal peace, and unity, Pope Leo XVI seemed to have implicitly validated Lebanese people&#8217;s desperate aspirations for peace, individually, domestically, and regionally. Perhaps most significantly, he may have acted as a role model for an agent of peace. It is Bambi&#8217;s hope that young people will value, demand, and insist on contributing to peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For all the above, thank you Holy Father Leo for being a ray of light in the darkness. As for Lebanon, may it find peace and rise in order to flourish and shine again.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Music and Prayers Fill the Air as Pope Leo Meets Lebanon\u2019s Youth in Beirut | APT\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/meJKa43qOQk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Lebnane\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2SOitVEhxs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Bambi was moved to the core by the images coming out of her birth county. As you can see in the brief YouTube video below, Pope Leo XIV received a WARM welcome by everyone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33559"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33565,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33559\/revisions\/33565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}