Special Tribunal for Lebanon Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen confirmed on Thursday an indictment against Hassan Habib Merhi who is accused of being involved in the February 14, 2005 Beirut attack that killed former Premier Rafik Hariri and 22 others. The confirmed indictment and an arrest warrant were transmitted confidentially to the Lebanese authorities on August […]

After months of foot-dragging, the United States Wednesday suspended deliveries of major military hardware and cash assistance to Egypt to signal deep concern over the mounting bloodshed and the lack of a democratic transition. Washington said it had stopped shipments of some large-scale military systems as well as halting $260 million in cash aid to […]

La « Congrégation pour la Doctrine de la Foi » (CDF) vient de mettre un terme au douloureux procès, engagé il y a deux ans, à l’encontre de Mgr Mansour Labaky. Très connu au Liban mais aussi en France pour ses nombreuses prédications de retraites, ses conférences et surtout pour l’accueil de trente enfants orphelins […]

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – Kuwait says it is developing a "medical test" to detect homosexuals and will bar entry into the country for people who fail it. Yousouf Mindkar, the director of public health at the Kuwaiti health ministry, told the Kuwaiti media, "Health centers conduct the routine medical check to assess the health of the expatriates when they come into the GCC countries. However, we will take stricter measures that will help us detect gays who will be then barred from entering Kuwait or any of the GCC member states."

Although the tests will certainly prove controversial, especially since homosexuality is the product of a disordered sexual appetite and, as opposed to a biological condition that can be measured on the basis of a physical examination, the countries are aiming to defend themselves against a militant movement that has already undermined many countries.

Several Gulf states have watched as the homosexual equivalency movement has generated discord in several countries, turning them into entire nations of Sodom. The people of those nations have the right to live by their morality and the militancy of the homosexual movement is extreme.

Pope Francis is planing to kick off a tour to the Middle East that would include Lebanon, to express the Vatican’s solidarity with the people of the region, who are confronting tremendous challenges. According to As Safir newspaper published on Tuesday, the pontiff’s visit to Lebanon is on his 2014 schedule, where he is set […]

Lebanon has banned the screening of a film about homosexuality and another on short-term "pleasure marriages" practiced in some Muslim communities, in a blow to its reputation as a bastion of tolerance in a deeply conservative region. The films, which had been due to be shown at the Beirut International Film Festival that opened last […]

Assaad Assaad sold everything to escape poverty in Lebanon, but now he is back, after watching his wife and three children, and his dreams of a better life, perish at sea. The 36-year-old, who could now pass for 50, was among 18 shell-shocked Lebanese who returned on Sunday after surviving a shipwreck off Indonesia that […]

Last week, the day after Lebanese president Michel Sleiman met Barack Obama at the United Nations to discuss the Syrian conflict, The New York Times thought it timely to publish an article titled In Beirut, Where Fashion Lives Dangerously. The article discussed the apparently innocuous question of the survival of couture in a conflict-ridden country. […]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to mount two risky capture raids against Al Qaeda operatives in North Africa reflects a reduced role for lethal CIA drone strikes and a growing role for the Pentagon in leading counter-terrorism operations, U.S. officials said Sunday. In storming the coastal Somalia home of a leader of Shabab, the […]

President Michel Suleiman’s repeated denials that he is seeking the extension of his term does not mean that this possibility has been taken off the table, diplomatic sources told the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Sunday. They said that his term, which ends in 2014, may indeed be extended until the Syrian crisis is resolved. Foreign […]