His Beatitude Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and All the East received, at his summer residence in Diman, a letter from former Vice-President of the Council of Ministers, Mr. Issam Fares in which he expresses his condolences over the death of His Eminence Mgr. Youssef Mahfouz. Fares also paid his condolences to the Council of Catholic Patriarchs of the Orient and to the Lebanese Maronite Order.