Bzoummar also Bzommar (Arabic: بزمار) is a village in Lebanon. It is located 36 km northeast of Beirut at an elevation ranging between 920 and 950m above the Mediterranean. It is part of the Caza of Keserwan. Bzoummar is home to the 250 year-old Convent of the Armenian Catholic Church that was built in 1749. In 2006-2007, it became part of the Lebanese political jargon[clarification needed] as it was the place of residence of the Christian leader Samir Geagea.[citation needed]
Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th Pope, a position in which he serves dual roles as Sovereign of the Vatican City State and leader of the Catholic Church. As pope he is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter. Benedict XVI was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship.
After a long career as an academic, serving as a professor of theology at various German universities—the last being the University of Regensburg—he was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1977. In 1981, he settled in Rome when he became Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, one of the most important dicasteries of the Roman Curia. From 2002 until his election as Pope, he was also Dean of the College of Cardinals, and as such the primus inter pares among the cardinals. Prior to becoming Pope, he was "a major figure on the Vatican stage for a quarter of a century" as "one of the most respected, influential and controversial members of the College of Cardinals"; he had an influence "second to none when it came to setting church priorities and directions" as one of Pope John Paul II's closest confidants.
Ibrahim Hassanien Shams (September 20, 1914 – 1984) was an Egyptian weightlifter who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Alexandria.
In 1936 he won the bronze medal in the featherweight class.
Because of the start of World War II and cancellation of the Olympics in both 1940 and 1944 years, he was forced to wait till 1948 London to prove himself again only to get the Gold Medal by lifting a total of weights of 360 kg in the Lightweight. He is the second Egyptian to score two medals after Farid Simaika in diving back in 1928 Amsterdam but he's the first to score them on two different Olympic tournaments.