BEIRUT-- Church bells rang, horns blasted and firecrackers echoed throughout Lebanon as it was announced that Bishop Bechara Rai of Jbeil, Lebanon, had been elected the new patriarch of the Maronite ...

A rainbow arched over the building site of the future Sacred Heart Maronite Monastery in Castle Rock, Wash., as the monks of the Order of Jesus, Mary and Joseph surveyed the land. The laypeople ...

On the feast day of Saint Charbel, Card Al-Rahi criticises once more Lebanon’s political leaders. Praising the monk as a "model of unity", he warns against the danger of "idolatry" of power and money, ...

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 ...