In Easter messages, two Catholic patriarchs criticized the situation in Lebanon and urged the faithful to cling to the hope of the Resurrection despite the prevailing darkness. One of the patriarchs also visited Syria, where ...
Fares Melki's first introduction to his great-uncle was when he asked his grandfather about the picture framed above his grandfather's bed. That was around 60 years ago, when Melki was 10. "It's my brother, Padre Leonard. ...
Toddlers could hardly contain their excitement as they danced in the church aisles to the Holy Missionary Choir's Christmas songs during a celebration that was a bright star of hope for Iraqi Syriac Catholic refugee ...
Marking the anniversary of Lebanon's massive popular uprising against the corrupt political class, Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai encouraged the country's young people to continue their protest movement. More than a million Lebanese of all religions, sounding ...
Bringing a message of hope to Lebanon, a month after a double blast struck Beirut, Pope Francis' closest collaborator assured the Lebanese: "You are not alone. The whole world supports you." Cardinal Pietro Parolin's Sept. ...
Pope Francis has asked Catholics and all people of good will to observe Sept. 4 as a day of prayer and fasting for Lebanon. As Pope Francis greeted people gathered in the courtyard of the Apostolic ...
As Lebanon reels from the August explosion in Beirut — which leveled much of the port and the Quarantina district that lies adjacent to it, killed almost 200 people, injured another 6,000, and displaced more ...
Viewing the burned wasteland of the Beirut port, one's eye catches a grey concrete slab in the foreground. It bears this stark message scribbled by the Lebanese in black ink: "My Government Did This." On Aug. ...
Following the massive explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut earlier this week, in an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Maronite Catholic bishops Gregory J. Masour of Brooklyn and A. Elias Zaidan of Los Angeles ...
As Lebanon's Catholic leaders appealed for help for their country, international and U.S. organizations appealed for donations for Beirut, capital of a country already suffering from a severe economic downturn. "The church, which has set up ...
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