Lebanon’s patriarchs, bishops sound alarm about presidential vacuum
With a presidential vacuum in Lebanon, the country’s Catholic religious leaders urged parliament “to elect a president immediately.”
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by bcadmin | Nov 14, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News | 0 |
With a presidential vacuum in Lebanon, the country’s Catholic religious leaders urged parliament “to elect a president immediately.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 6, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Bahrain - Live Coverage, Church in the Middle East, lead, Lebanon, News, Papal plane, Papal Trips, Pope Francis | 0 |
Pope Francis appealed Sunday for Lebanon’s politicians to put their personal interests aside and agree on a path to help the country emerge from years of economic meltdown and a new political vacuum.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 27, 2022 | Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, Mediterranean, migrants and refugees, News | 0 |
Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai denounced the launching of “boats of death” from Lebanon following the drowning of nearly 100 migrants who had attempted to flee the crisis-stricken country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 17, 2022 | Art, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Melkite Catholic Church, News, nun | 0 |
In London, prayers now rise up to God from the shrine of Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians, and also from Lebanon, where the shrine’s icon originated.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 10, 2022 | Aid to the Church in Need, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, News, Syriac Catholic | 0 |
In Lebanon, teetering on the abyss of a socioeconomic crisis, the future of Catholic schools is at risk.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 2, 2022 | Apostolic Nuncio, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, News | 0 |
Pope Francis’s representative to Lebanon, who is preparing to go to a new assignment as nuncio to Mexico, said he would cherish the four years he has spent in the land of the cedars.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Cardinal Joseph Zen, Church in Asia, democracy, Hong Kong, Iraq, Kazakhstan, lead, Lebanon, News, Papal travel, Religious tolerance | 0 |
From Kazakhstan to Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iraq, things are happening on the local scene that are of relevance not only to those churches, but to the broader international Catholic community.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Beirut, Caritas, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, News | 0 |
For the poor in Lebanon whose lives are clouded in misery, even a fresh coat of paint can brighten bleak living conditions.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 5, 2022 | Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, News | 0 |
BEIRUT — The 2020 Beirut port blast was the “crime of the century,” said Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch. In a solemn Mass commemorating the second anniversary of the blast Aug. 4, the cardinal expressed frustration that no one had been held accountable for the explosion that left 224 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Caritas, Church in the Middle East, lead, Lebanon, Middle East, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
As Lebanon marks the second anniversary of the devastating Beirut port blast, many citizens are angry at the lack of progress and the worsening of a social and economic crisis that has left swaths of the population in acute difficulty.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 3, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News | 0 |
A Lebanese archbishop who carried more than $460,000 from Israel to Lebanon is at the center of the latest sectarian showdown in crisis-hit Lebanon, and the case could even spill over into presidential politics.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 21, 2022 | Cardinal Bechara Rai, christianity, Church in Asia, church-state relations, Interreligious dialogue, lead, Lebanon, News | 0 |
Lebanese Maronite Archbishop Moussa El-Hage’s unexpected detainment earlier this week and his summons to court have made waves, stoking fears that fresh political tensions could further erode Lebanon’s delicate religious balance.
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