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by 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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 18, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, LGBTQ, News | 0 |
Millions in the once middle-income country continue to struggle with soaring inflation, rampant power cuts, and medicine shortages, while tens of thousands have left the country in search of opportunities abroad.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 28, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Christians in the Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, News, Syria, Syriac Catholic | 0 |
The Syriac Catholic bishops said they discussed “the suffering of their children” in the Middle East.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 26, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Interfaith marriage, Lebanon, Maronite Church, Marriage, News | 0 |
Dona-Maria Nammour was looking for a love story. The night she met Mazen Jaber for the first time, they ended up dancing for hours.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 25, 2022 | Caritas Internationalis, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, News | 0 |
Two U.S. Maronite Catholic dioceses are sponsoring 450 families each month in Lebanon and have provided several hundred thousand dollars for hospitalization costs.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 6, 2022 | Beatification, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, News, saints and martyrs | 0 |
Like a light piercing through the darkness of despair in beleaguered Lebanon, two martyred Lebanese Capuchin priests were beatified on the eve of Pentecost.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2022 | lead, Lebanon, News, Papal health, Papal travel, Pope Francis, South Sudan, Vatican | 0 |
Monday’s announcement that Pope Francis’s visit to Lebanon next month has been postponed due to his health has cast down on his other ambitious travel plans this summer.
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