UPapa uFrancis uthumela umnikelo eBeirut ukuze alulame

UPope Francis uthumele umnikelo wama-250.000 euros ($ 295.488) ukusiza eSontweni laseLebanon ukusiza ngemizamo yokuthola kabusha kulandela ukuqhuma okubhubhisayo enhlokodolobha yaseBeirut ekuqaleni kwaleli sonto.

"Lo mnikelo kuhloswe ngawo ukuba kube wuphawu lokuthi uBangcwele Bakhe uyasinaka futhi usondelene nabantu abathintekile nokuthi usondelene nobaba wakhe kubantu abanobunzima obukhulu," usho kanje ngo-Agasti 7 ngesikhathi ekhishwa ngabezindaba eVatican.

Bangaphezu kuka-137 abantu ababulawa kwathi izinkulungwane zalimala ngesikhathi kuqhuma idolobha laseBeirut ngomhlaka 4 Agasti. Lokhu kuqhuma kudale umonakalo omkhulu edolobheni kwaqothula nezakhiwo eziseduze nechweba. Umbusi waseBeirut uMarwan Abboud uthe abantu abalinganiselwa ku-300.000 XNUMX abanamakhaya okwesikhashana.

Abaholi bamabandla baxwayise ngokuthi idolobha kanye nesizwe basengozini yokuwa ngokuphelele futhi bacele usizo emphakathini wamazwe omhlaba.

UMbhishobhi Gregory Mansour we-Eparchy of St Maron eBrooklyn noMbhishobhi u-Elias Zeidan we-Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon eLos Angeles bachaze iBeirut "njengedolobha elixakile" esicelweni sokuhlanganyela sokusizwa ngoLwesithathu.

"Leli lizwe lisengcupheni yokungaphumeleli futhi liwe ngokuphelele," kusho bona. "Sithandazela iLebanon futhi sicela uxhaso lwenu kubafowethu nodadewethu kulesi sikhathi esinzima nasabela kule nhlekelele".

Umnikelo kaPapa Francis, owenziwe ngeDicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, uzoya esigungwini sabaphostoli eBeirut "ukuhlangabezana nezidingo zeSonto laseLebanon kulezi zikhathi zobunzima nokuhlupheka," ngokusho kweVatican.

Ukuqhuma kwacekela phansi "izakhiwo, amasonto, izindlu zezindela, izikhungo kanye nokuthuthwa kwendle okuyisisekelo", isitatimende siyaqhubeka "Impendulo ephuthumayo kanye nosizo lokuqala isivele iyaqhubeka ngokunakekelwa kwezempilo, izindawo zokukhosela abantu abadingisiwe nezikhungo zezimo eziphuthumayo ezitholwe yiSonto ngeCaritas Lebanon, Caritas Internationalis kanye nezinhlangano ezahlukahlukene zezindela zaseCaritas".

Iziphathimandla zaseLebanon zithi lokhu kuqhuma kubonakala sengathi kudalwe ukuqhuma kwamathani angaphezu kwamakhulu amabili namashumi ayisihlanu we-ammonium nitrate yamakhemikhali, asetshenziswa kakhulu kumanyolo naseziqhumeni zezimayini, agcinwe enqolobaneni engagadiwe ethekwini iminyaka eyisithupha.

UPope Francis wethule isicelo sokuthandazela abantu baseLebanon ngemuva kwenkulumo yezethameli jikelele ngomhlaka 5 Agasti.

Ekhuluma ekusakazeni bukhoma, uthe: “asikhulekele labo abahlukumezekile, imindeni yabo; futhi sithandazela iLebhanon, ukuze, ngokunikezelwa kwazo zonke izinhlaka zayo zenhlalo, ezepolitiki nezenkolo, ibhekane nalesi sikhathi esibuhlungu nesibuhlungu kakhulu futhi, ngosizo lomphakathi wamazwe omhlaba, inqobe ubunzima obubucayi ababhekene nabo ".