The Patriarch Mar Beshara Boutros Rai commented on Hezbollah's attack on him, saying:"I never react neither negatively nor positively ".
He added in an interview with MTV: "I met the head of the "Marda" movement, Sleiman Frangieh, and I will meet everyone, " pointing out that "we must get out of the tragedy that Lebanon is living in, and we have no problem with anyone," stressing not to enter into a debate of consensus on Jihad Azour.
He continued: I do my job and I would talk about it when it is the right time.