Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi

بشارة بطرس الراعي

Other Independent Verified

Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East since 2011; the senior religious authority for Lebanon's Maronite community and a frequent voice on Lebanese politics. Has advocated for Lebanese neutrality vis-a-vis regional conflicts and an international conference on Lebanon's status.

Country: Lebanon
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Other

Position

1 source document on file for Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

Speech English 2024-12-24

Patriarch Bechara al-Rahi (Maronite Patriarch of Antioch) — Christmas speech, 24 Dec 2024 (per Naharnet): his "positive neutrality" doctrine — one army "instead of two armies," distancing Lebanon from wars and alliances, sovereignty and non-interference, Lebanon as a neutral meeting-place. (Implicitly against Hezbollah's arms and the Iran-led axis.)

Lebanon must protect its sovereignty and defend itself against any occupier, without interfering in the affairs of other states. This neutrality enables Lebanon to play its active role as a place of meeting and…

47 words original source ↗

How to cite

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Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/rahi

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/rahi.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-rahi,
  title     = {{Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/rahi},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

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APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.