Catholic Herlad news At least 60 Christians have been abducted by ISIS gunmen in a central town in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.They are among more than 200 civilians reportedly abducted by militants after the capture of Qaryatain. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdurrahman said that many of the […]

Lucinda Borkett-Jones –
Christian Today Features Editor

Jeb Bush (62): The former governor of Florida is certainly among the more well-known candidates in the crowded Republican field.

Bush was raised in the Episcopal Church, but converted to his wife Columba’s Catholic faith in 1994. In a speech in Italy in 2009 he said (according to the New York Times): "I love the sacraments of the Catholic Church, the timeless nature of the message of the Catholic Church, the fact that the catholic Church believes in, and acts on, absolute truth as its foundational principle and doesn’t move with the tides of modern times, as my former religion did." He described his conversion as "one of the most important times of my life" when speaking at the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference earlier this year.

Brett LoGiurato

Real-estate magnate Donald Trump reamed Fox News moderators and associates during a lengthy Twitter rant early Friday morning, hours after the first Republican presidential debate.

Trump went off on moderator Megyn Kelly, who he said "bombed." Kelly had perhaps the most contentious exchange of the night with Trump when she asked him about a slew of past offensive comments toward women.

Brett LoGiurato and Maxwell Tani

Ten Republican candidates took center stage in Cleveland for the first presidential debate of the 2016 campaign.

Fox News, the host of the first debate, limited the Republican participants in the prime-time debate to the 10 candidates polling best in an average of five recent national polls. It comes hours after the bottom-tier candidates went head-to-head in a separate forum.

Kareem Shaheen in Beirut

The 30 seconds between the power outage and the generator kicking in feel like a lifetime.

Sweat pools on eyebrows. The anticipation is unbearable. And then the power starts up and the fan blasts cool air across your soaked shirt. The little pleasures in life, all the more enjoyable during a Middle East heatwave.

James Haines-Young

After weeks of scrambling, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Tammam Salam on Wednesday promised that the country would see a “phased” end to its mounting garbage crisis, which could be over “within days”.

But more than 21 days after rubbish collection in the capital first stopped and piles of rotting waste began decomposing in the city’s streets in the summer heat, many residents are demanding an overhaul of the situation, not another quick fix.

Daily Star, Energy Minister Arthur Nazarian has warned there is no quick solution to the electricity problem in Lebanon.The major challenges to the electricity sector, as pointed out by Nazarian, are an accumulation of power failures, a massive heat wave, electricity theft and obstacles in building new power plants as well as an increase in […]

Guns, greed and God. Game of Thrones with RPGs. Human rights and hummus rights," writes Tom Fletcher, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Lebanon, in final blog entry

By Colin Freeman