Father majdi allawi wikipedia

Blessing himself as he settles in the driver’s seat of his small car, which serves as a makeshift office, Father Majdi Allawi sets out to visit and serve at several initiatives of Bonheur du Ciel, the charity he founded.

Each day, he covers a different area of Lebanon.

It’s am. “I pray the Rosary so Mary holds my hand,” he says of his one-handed driving style as he patiently inches through never-ending traffic.

Formally established in with a drug-rehabilitation center, Bonheur du Ciel’s mission has blossomed to 28 projects throughout the country, including eight restaurants serving free meals, a home for the homeless, a safehouse for battered women, a home for abandoned babies, an orphanage, two homes for “forgotten” elderly, a bakery, a supermarket and even a hair salon.

“I would like to ask people, ‘Have you ever gone to sleep hungry or slept on the road?’ If we don’t accept that for ourselves, how can we accept it for others?” the wide-eyed, soft-spoken Melkite Catholic priest