The head of the Higher Islamic Shiite Council, Sheikh Abdel-Amir Qabalan, condemned on Sunday the recent attacks against the Lebanese Armed Forces, describing the parties who carried out the attacks as "very hostile."He was referring to a bomb explosion near the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp which led to the death of a Lebanese soldier and a failed attack on the outskirts of the Ain al-Hilweh camp near Sidon which lead to the death of a would-be suicide bomber.
"The best reaction to such attacks is preserving national unity and supporting the Lebanese army," Qabalan said.
Qabalan congratulated the Lebanese for Israel's release of Nassim Nisr, who spent six years in Israeli jails after being accused of spying for Hizbullah.
Meanwhile, Sunni Mufti Mohammad Rashid Qabbani also condemned "the heinous crime that targeted the Lebanese Army in the North and killed soldier Oussama al-Hassan."
Qabbani also commemorated former Prime Minister Rashid Karami, who was assassinated on June 1, 1987.
Also Sunday, senior Shiite cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah denounced Pope Benedict XVI's call for people around the world to convert to Christianity.
Fadlallah criticized the pope's position toward Islam as a religion that denies freedom, as well as his position toward the state of Israel for it represents the "worst attack on people's simplest rights to their land."
Meanwhile, Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir gave a sermon on Sunday limited to religious topics.
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