Religion

The mass celebrating Saint Maroun began on Thursday morning in Mar Maroun Church in Beirut’s Gemmayze, headed by Archbishop Boulos Matar. The mass is attended by President Michel Aoun, Premier Saad Hariri and other officials.

                                             St. Maroun Every year on February 9th, Lebanon celebrates the feast of St. Maroun. Who was this remarkable saint? Born in the 4th […]

Pope Francis leads his Wednesday general audience at Paul VI auditorium hall in Vatican City. Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis repeated his appeal for people to build bridges of understanding, not walls as he marked a feast day of a Sudanese […]

White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is known to have cultivated ties with far-right parties in Europe, like the National Front in France. He also seems to have forged an alliance with Vatican hard-liners who oppose Pope Francis’ less rigid approach to church doctrine. The […]

Le prophète Mahomet témoignait un grand respect aux moines maronites et aux ordres religieux. Lui-même, puissant organisateur religieux, était heureux de saluer des hommes qui n’organisaient rien mais plutôt s’organisaient entre eux pour servir Dieu. Pour l’islam, l’omniprésence de Dieu provoque l’adoration et la soumission […]

Le système du confessionnalisme politique a permis l’apparition de privilèges au profit des différentes communautés du pays. Les avantages dont bénéficient les institutions religieuses au Liban représentent un manque à gagner pour les caisses de l’Etat et peuvent donner lieu à certains abus. Magazine a […]

 Ein neues Gesetz sollte den Bau von christlichen Gotteshäusern in Ägypten erleichtern, doch die Realität sieht anders aus. Von Flemming Weiß-Andersen, Eva Plesner und Elisabeth Lehmann Younan Khalaf steht vor dem Rohbau seines Hauses und reibt sich die Augen. Noch immer stehen nur die Grundmauern. […]

Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi, said on Sunday that the change in mentalities would help in the elaboration of a new electoral law. In his homily in Bkerki, Cardinal Rahi stressed the need for changing attitudes in Lebanon, during the new presidential mandate, the […]

Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Abdel-Latif Deryan, concluded on Sunday his visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Al Yamama Palace in Riyadh. Mufti Deryan informed King Salman of the situation in Lebanon, and hailed the efforts […]