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Aoun was speaking on Sunday after attending Easter Mass, celebrated by Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rahi in Bkirki. In his sermon, the Patriarch congratulated Aoun on Easter Day, wishing him success in leading the country at the political, economic, security and social levels. The Patriarch addressed the ...

Aoun was speaking on Sunday after attending Easter Mass, celebrated by Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rahi in Bkirki. In his sermon, the Patriarch congratulated Aoun on Easter Day, wishing him success in leading the country at the political, economic, security and social levels. The Patriarch addressed the ...

President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, hoped for the resurrection and salvation of Lebanon, saying “today we are celebrating the resurrection of Christ, and we hope for the salvation of Lebanon.” President Aoun's fresh words on Sunday came in the wake of his visit to Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara ...

The Catholic one this Sunday, the Orthodox one next Sunday. Christians make the rounds of each other's churches in a popular celebration of Jesus's life, death and resurrection. Ecumenicism is at work in Damascus, the cradle of Christianity. We begin at the Maronite Catholic Church of St Anthony as the ...

By mid-morning, thousands of darkly dressed figures are gathered in a park in suburban western Sydney. It's Good Friday, and for Maronites — members of the Lebanese branch of the Catholic church — it's one of the holiest, and most sorrowful, days of the year. Maronite Catholicism comes from the ...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun meets Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi at the presidential palace. (Dalati & Nohra). Beirut - Nazeer Rida. President Michel Aoun warned on Friday that Lebanon was “bankrupt”, which therefore demands the need to “control finances and combat corruption.”

Fairfax Media has also been contacted by Santa Sabina parents of Maronite Catholic background who said they do not agree with the push by some members of their community to oust Dr Herrett. One father, who did not wish to be named, said he thinks Dr Herrett is “someone you'd want your daughters to ...

"The bombing destroyed many important archaeological buildings", including the tomb of Saint Maron of the Maronite community, said Syrian antiquities chief Mahmoud Hamoud. Also destroyed was "the Julianus Church, which includes the mausoleum and is one of the oldest Christian churches in the ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with Lebanon's Christian Maronite patriarch on November 14, 2017, in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia's King Salman hosted the head of the Lebanese Maronite church Beshara Rai, a historic first at a time when Riyadh is stepping up the pressure on ...

Just because we're into the being “the new North” doesn't mean we don't have a deep love of some throwback institutions like a rockin' Lenten fish fry—and don't you dare say ironic, we're legit-ly into them. And to get you into them, too, Liz B. is our Fish Fry Finder for this season. #blessed! She's going to ...

Just because we're into the being “the new North” doesn't mean we don't have a deep love of some throwback institutions like a rockin' Lenten fish fry—and don't you dare say ironic, we're legit-ly into them. And to get you into them, too, Liz B. is our Fish Fry Finder for this season. #blessed! She's going to ...

Pope Francis has raised the Apostolic Exarchate for the Maronite faithful to the Eparchy of the Annunciation, with See in Ibadan, and has appointed Reverend Chorbishop Simon Faddoul as first bishop. The Secretary General of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN) Rev Fr. Ralph Madu said this ...

A dispute between the Future Movement and the FPM had emerged few weeks ago when the Free Patriotic had asked to name one maronite and one ... seats in the Akkar district during the upcoming parliamentary elections, divided between three Sunnis, two Orthodox, one Maronite and one Alawite.

The Lebanese-Australian engineer Danny Nouh is about to become the “first married man to be ordained to the priesthood in Australia for the Maronite Catholic Church,” according to sources. FB | Australian Maronite Professionals Council ...

Pope Francis on Friday received staff and students from the Pontifical Maronite College here in Rome, telling them that these years of training were the foundation stone of their future as pastors in Lebanon and the whole of the Middle East.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Friday received staff and students from the Pontifical Maronite College here in Rome, telling them that these years of training were the foundation ... In conclusion the pope entrusted to this Maronite community the protection of Our Lady of Lebanon and their great saints.

CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis met at a private audience on February 16 with students at the Pontifical Maronite College in Rome. He remarked that in the face of temptations toward a “culture of the temporary and appearances,” their time of study in Rome should help them to develop “antibodies against ...

MARONITE Catholics living in Brisbane made a pilgrimage to their homeland of Lebanon in the spiritual sense when they welcomed the first-class relics of their founding father St Maroun. The Maronite community of St Maroun's, Greenslopes, venerated the ex-ossibus relics of St Maroun, taken from his ...

Wanda was a lifetime member of St. Elias Maronite Catholic Church where she passionately volunteered in many roles and nurtured her deep devotion to Our Blessed Mother Mary. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, 2018, at Oakey's Roanoke Chapel with a service of incense ...

A man prays after receiving ashes during Mass Feb. 12 at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Church in Washington. In the Maronite Catholic Church, ashes are distributed on Monday, two days ahead of the Latin rite's traditional Ash Wednesday distribution. (Credit: CNS photo/Bob Roller.) ...

It was the beating heart of the island's small but vibrant Maronite community. But then in 1974, a brief Greece-backed coup prompted a military intervention by Turkish forces, which effectively divided the island between a Turkish Cypriot north and a Greek Cypriot south. The Maronites, who resided in four ...

BEIRUT – Lebanese Maronite Christians on Sunday celebrated the start of the holy week that precedes Easter, known as Palm Sunday. Maronite Bishop of Beirut Boulos Matar led a mass procession in the streets surrounding the St. George Maronite Cathedral and the Mohamed al-Amin Mosque in downtown Beirut, then ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci pledged on Friday that the issue of Maronites returning to their homes in Ayia Marina village would be discussed with the 'government' once 'parliament' approves the 'state budget' for 2018, reports from the north said. According to the Cyprus News Agency, which ...

“Bombs are killing innocent people every day,” Maronite Archbishop Samir Nassar of Damascus wrote in his Lenten letter. He also narrowly escaped a missile strike in January. As a result an increasing number of Syrians are attempting to migrate overseas “even though this is becoming increasingly difficult ...