Lebanon Archives - Page 2 of 11

In Lebanon, Syrian refugees face new pressure to go home

Associated Press, Church in the Middle East
Jun 20, 2019

Lebanese authorities are making their most aggressive campaign yet for Syrian refugees to return home and are taking action to ensure they can’t put down roots.

Maronite bishops urge repatriation of Syrian refugees from Lebanon

Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East
Jun 17, 2019

Maronite Catholic bishops from around the world, meeting in Lebanon, called for unity among politicians and for the international community to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees.

Lebanon’s former Maronite Christian patriarch Sfeir dies

Associated Press, Church in the Middle East
May 12, 2019

Cardinal Nasrallah Butros Sfeir, an outspoken and feisty personality who also played a key role in shaping the country’s post-war politics, died in a Beirut hospital two weeks after he was admitted suffering from a chest infection.

Mideast patriarchs urge hope of Resurrection in Easter messages

Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East
Apr 23, 2019

Catholic patriarchs from the Middle East invoked hope in their Easter messages to people suffering from terrorism, wars, displacement and economic hardship.

To help Syrian refugees, get to roots of war, Melkite archbishop tells EU

Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East
Apr 5, 2019

Aside from humanitarian assistance for Syrian refugees and concrete efforts to help them return to their homeland, the international community should work toward eradicating the roots of wars and violence, an archbishop from Lebanon told members of a political party holding the largest number of seats in the European Parliament.

Jesus broke religious barriers, Brother Alois tells Christians, Muslims

Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East
Mar 28, 2019

Amid all the violence of the world, religions must be factors of peace, Brother Alois Leser, prior of the Taize community, told Christian and Muslim young adults from 43 countries.