BEIRUT-- The new patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church pledged to work with Muslims, noting that Lebanon is a country of partnership between Muslims and Christians. Patriarch Bechara Rai said that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's Christian Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir reviews an honour guard upon arriving at ...

When a priest consecrates, or makes holy, the bread and wine during a Maronite Rite Mass, he speaks in Aramaic, the spoken language of Jesus. Hearing the words Jesus is said to have used when talking ...

The bishops welcomed the international consensus to extend the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in the south for one more year. The Maronite bishops gather for their monthly ...

BEIRUT — Under an open sun-setting sky on the sprawling grounds of Bkerke, the Maronite Catholic patriarchate in Lebanon, 41 couples were married in a collective wedding, receiving the apostolic ...

BEIRUT — The former patriarch of Lebanon’s Maronite Christian church, Cardinal Nasrallah Butros Sfeir, who served as spiritual leader of Lebanon’s largest Christian community through some of the worst ...

Parishioners of Our Lady of Purgatory Maronite Catholic Church (OLOP) in New Bedford welcomed Christians from around the region on April 24 and 25 to pray and reflect in the presence of the Relics of ...

Background: Born in Springfield, Mass., and raised in Albany and Colonie, he graduated from Boston College and received a law degree from American University in Washington. He and his wife, Diana, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wissam Akiki, who is married, left, serves his daughter, Perla, communion after being ordained during a ceremony at St. Raymond’s ...

BEIRUT-- Maronite Catholic bishops from around the world will gather beginning March 9 for a synod to elect the 77th patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church in Bkerke, Lebanon, the patriarchal seat ...

Western diplomats love to repeat the cowardly cliché that “Lebanon is Hezbollah.” For them, it is a comforting excuse for doing nothing against the strongest terrorist entity in the world. But the ...