Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, said on Sunday from Bkirky that he plans to work hard to fill the void in public posts with competent people. Aoun held a private meeting with Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Beshara Rahi, in Bkirky, before the commencement of […]

Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Beshara Rahi, held Christmas mass on Sunday at Bkirky and said during his sermon that the country needed to emerge out of its darkness into the light, noting that the presence of two million displaced people and refugees posed a grave danger […]

Minister of the Displaced, Talal Arslan, shared via Twitter, on Saturday, a picture of a Christmas tree at his residence in Khaldeh, saying in a Tweet: “We ask God in this holy festive season to bless Lebanon and our aching surroundings with peace…Merry Christmas.”

Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Alexandria and Jerusalem for Melkite Catholics, Gregory III Lahham, addressed, on Saturday, a message to Aleppo and Syrians, and Christians in particular, entitled: “Peace is coming to Syria, following peace in Aleppo.” “On the occasion of the Holy […]

Pope Francis on Sunday offered a Christmas hope for peace in a world lacerated by war and terrorism, urging people to remember migrants, refugees and those hit by economic instability caused by “idolatry of money”. Francis, marking the fourth Christmas season since his election in […]

Security was heightened for the Christmas weekend in Italy and at the Vatican on Saturday after Italian police killed the man believed to be responsible for the Berlin market truck attack while other European cities kept forces on high alert. In France, Britain and Germany, […]

‘Tis the season to be jolly… Because New Year is getting closer! While in most Western countries the main winter holiday is Christmas, in Russia it is New Year’s Day that is celebrated on a large scale across the country. In preparations for the most […]

On Sunday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry’s Tu-154 aircraft en route to Syria with 92 people on board crashed into the Black Sea shortly after refueling at an airport in the Russian resort city of Adler. Fragments of the plane were discovered 1 mile from […]

JUDY WOODRUFF: So, why did the Obama administration today abstain from voting on the United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem? We ask Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications to the president. Ben Rhodes, […]