In a ceremony that blended centuries-old tradition with new hope, the Maronite Catholic Church celebrated the beatification of Patriarch Estephan Douaihy on Friday, Aug. 2, in Bkerké, Lebanon. An ...

A planned visit by the head of the Maronite church to Jerusalem has stirred an outcry in Lebanon, which is still technically at war with its southern neighbour Israel. Lebanon’s Patriarch Beshara ...

In 1989, Pope John Paul II issued an apostolic letter warning that “the disappearance of Lebanon would be one of the world’s greatest sorrows” and that saving it is “one of the most urgent and noble ...

Black smoke and raging fires lit up the sky as successive explosions rumbled through Beirut’s southern suburbs over the weekend, with Oct. 5 marking one of the most violent nights the Lebanese capital ...

ST. LOUIS — On Friday evenings throughout the Lenten season, you can find a fish fry on almost every corner. But, at St. Raymond-St. Elizabeth’s Maronite Catholic Church in Crestwood, you’ll find more ...

Marta Gabriel dances to music Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, during Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church’s annual Lebanese Heritage Days festival in Easton. The festival was established more than four ...

Catholic villagers attack Baptists, vandalize church. Maronite Catholics attacked a newly built, independent Baptist church near Beirut in August, mauling churchgoers preparing to host war refugees ...

Lebanon was majority-Christian starting from the first century (when Christianity was introduced by figures such as St. Peter ...

Catholic church leaders in the Middle East condemned a second wave of explosions of hand-held devices across Lebanon and in the capital, Beirut, apparently targeting the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus — Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots to the ...

The Easton community has lost a longtime deacon at its Maronite Catholic Church and a retired Catholic educator and athletic director. Anthony Koury died this week at the age of 77. He was a high ...