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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Apr 18, 2022 | Armenian Catholic Church, Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Chaldean Catholic Church, Christians in the Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Patriarch Louis Sako, Syria, Syriac Catholic | 0 |
Eastern Catholic patriarchs related the Easter message of Resurrection and hope to the political situations in the Middle East.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 23, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News, Papal travel, Pope Francis | 0 |
Pope Francis told Lebanon’s president the country has a special place in his prayers, and he reiterated his intention to visit.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2022 | Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News | 0 |
Catholic leaders from Europe, the United States and Canada called on their governments to support Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai’s appeal for an international conference to protect Lebanon.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 20, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Hunger, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News, Poverty, Refugees, War | 0 |
As Lebanon crumbles under a socioeconomic crisis, Lebanon’s religious are assuming roles as relief and social workers.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 3, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
The Vatican’s foreign minister traveled to Lebanon with messages for its politicians and for ordinary people.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2022 | Aid to the Church in Need, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News | 0 |
Lebanon’s financial meltdown has been characterized by the World Bank as one of the worst worldwide since the 1850s; nearly 80 percent of the population now lives in poverty.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 3, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Middle East, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News | 0 |
The head of Lebanon’s largest Christian party said on Sunday that a 15-year-old alliance with the country’s powerful Shiite group Hezbollah was no longer working and must evolve.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 20, 2021 | Antonio Guterres, Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News | 0 |
Lebanon’s religious leaders met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his visit to the crisis-stricken country.
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