Efforts to resolve the controversial crisis of Electricite du Liban reached a standstill on Tuesday as the contract workers refused to budge on their demands and the company’s board of directors is insisting on its stance. Prime Minister Najib Miqati entered into negotiations between the rival sides in an attempt to avert a looming electricity […]

  رأى الوزير السابق زياد بارود لـ "السفير" أن" الجمعية اللبنانية لديموقراطية الانتخابات سجلت نجاحها الاول عبر حملة "بلدي بلدتي بلديتي التف حولها الاعلام وطلاب جامعات وقادة رأي وغيرهم وجمعت مئة الف توقيع، واستطاعت ان تكون ظهراً داعماً لنواب تقدموا بطعن الى المجلس الدستوري الذي اصدر قراره بابطال قانون مدد للمجالس البلدية والاختيارية. وكان يمدد […]

  BEIRUT: One of the kidnappers holding 11 Lebanese pilgrims in Syria denied Sunday reports that the men would be released before the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Several of the kidnapped blamed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and the Lebanese government for delaying their release. Abu Ibrahim, an opposition leader in the Syrian […]

  ترأس البطريرك الماروني مار بشارة بطرس الراعي، عصر اليوم، قداسا في الباحة الخارجية للصرح البطريركي في بكركي، رسم فيه المونسنيور جورج شيحان، الأباتي موسى الحاج، الأب بولس روحانا، المونسيور مارون العمار والمونسنيور جوزف معوض الى الرتبة الأسقفية، بمشاركة الكاردينال نصر الله صفير، السفير البابوي غابريال كاتشا وعدد من أساقفة الطائفة وأساقفة من مصر والسودان […]

  Nearly 34,000 Syrian refugees had fled the crackdown in their country to Lebanon according to a report issued on Saturday by the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees. “There are currently more than 34,000 Syrian refugees receiving aid in Lebanon through the efforts exerted by the Lebanese cabinet and its U.N. and non-governmental organization partners,” […]

Damascus, Syria, Jul 23, 2012 / 04:50 pm (CNA).- The Syrian rebels’ attack on Damascus has allowed radical Islamist groups to attack Iraqi refugees, Christians allegedly loyal to the Syrian government and other civilians.

Local Christians have expressed dismay and outrage at the attacks on defenseless civilians, a local source told Fides news agency.

The rebel group Liwa al-Islam, a Wahhabi group whose name means “The Brigade of Islam,” has claimed responsibility for killing top generals in President Bashar Assad’s government. On the morning of July 23, its members also killed an entire Christian family in the Damascus neighborhood of Bab Tuma.

Militants blocked the car of Nabil Zoreb, a Christian civil officer. They ordered him, his wife Violet, and his two sons George and Jimmy to get out of the car. The militants then killed them all.

  Pope Benedict XVI will travel to Lebanon on Sept. 14-16, marking his first visit to the Middle East since the Arab Spring and his fourth overall to the region (after Turkey in 2006, the Holy Land in 2009 and Cyprus in 2010). It’s also the closest he’s likely to get to the current chaos […]

  The army took strict security measures on Friday in the Akkar region in general and al-Qubayyat in particular in a bid to reassure the residents after threatening leaflets were found inside a church in the northern town, state-run National News Agency reported. The army is “conducting investigations in the area with the aim of identifying […]

  Deficit spending is at all-time high. The health care law is set to increase the deficit by $210 billion in 2012-2021 (estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, the government’s nonpartisan fiscal umpire). What would you choose — the government to live within its means or continue to live with very attractive programs that it […]