Where is the newsweek to report about this factual events?
In the evening of Friday May 6, 2005, an explosion fully destroyed the Sawt al-Mahabbah (Voice of Charity; VOC) radio station and badly damaged the neighboring St. John's Maronite Catholic church in the Christian town of Jounieh, some 15 kilometers north of Beirut, in the Christian heartland. Two persons were reported to have died and seven others seriously wounded. Earlier on that day, the Voice of Charity radio had broadcast a live sit-in by relatives of Lebanese detainees held in Syrian prisons within an all-day program dedicated to Lebanese prisoners in Syrian and Israeli prisons. Two masses were also simultaneously held for the Lebanese detainees in front of the UN house in Downtown Beirut and at the St. John's church in Jounieh. The Voice of Charity operates under the auspices of the Assembly of the Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon. It was founded in 1984 by the Congregation of the Lebanese Maronite Missionaries, who is the custodians of the station ever since its inception.
In his Sunday sermon in Bkirki, Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, who visited the explosion site Saturday morning, said there was still an "invisible evil hand" who insists on bringing terror and instability to Lebanese civilians. "However, nothing and no one will stand in the way of the people's independence," the Patriarch added. A Lebanese MP claimed the joint Lebanese-Syrian secu
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