Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stressed on Tuesday the importance of equality between Muslims and Christians in Lebanon, reiterating that the fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are not linked to Islam. “Lebanon is a model for coexistence between Muslim and Christian. They both live equally,” al-Rahi said from the […]

  SIDON, Lebanon: Christian and Muslim religious figures Tuesday rejected what they said was the sectarian label on regional conflicts, calling on Lebanese to unite in the face of terror threats, during Ashoura commemorations in south Lebanon. The Jaafarite Council, a Shiite religious body, in Sidon held a commemoration of Ashoura and brought together various […]

  The threat of Islamic State has crossed the borders of Syria to neighboring Lebanon, making Christians there arm themselves to defend their land and families from the extremists. RT goes to the Syrian-Lebanese border, to meet the militias. More than 20 people have been killed in northern Lebanon in clashes between the army and […]

  BEIRUT, Lebanon — In some of the worst spillover clashes from the Syrian civil war to strike neighboring Lebanon, fighting raged Sunday in the northern city of Tripoli between the Lebanese Army and Sunni Islamist militants. Eighteen people, including six soldiers, have died in the battles, which began Friday. The fight in Tripoli may […]

  BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai said Friday that some political parties in the country wanted to change the country’s power-sharing governance formula between Muslims and Christians, and expressed his strong opposition to the idea. “MPs did not elect a president, because they are waiting for a signal from certain states,” said Rai, who is […]

  The Qatari envoy who is in the outskirts of Arsal to negotiate in the case of kidnapped soldiers by extremist groups since last August, received on Friday the list of demands of the abductees. According to LBCI: “The Qatari envoy, who is in the outskirts of Arsal, received the list of demands of the […]