President Michel Suleiman on Wednesday announced that he will resume contacts aimed at relaunching national dialogue, noting that the parties that choose to boycott the upcoming session would be held responsible for the consequences of their decision.   “I will resume my contacts and efforts starting this evening in a bid to relaunch […]

  Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday appointed Maronite Archbishop of Beirut Boulos Matar to a Vatican department aimed at countering growing secularization. The Vatican said Matar and the Archbishop of Jos in central Nigeria, Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, would be joining the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization. Despite the raging conflict in Syria, which has also raised […]

  [Annahar] يبدو ان قرار تعميم جنون القتل والعصبيات واستخدام العنف قد اتخذ ليشمل جميع مكونات الشعب السوري دون استثناء. وآخر ما ذكر في هذا الاطار، المعلومات التي سربتها اوساط كنسية بارزة في العاصمة السورية عن قيام مسؤولين وكوادر من اجهزة الاستخبارات والامن في النظام السوري بجولة خلال الايام الاخيرة على منازل عدد من الفاعليات […]

  Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday said married couples should sit down and talk about their problems with "utmost sincerity" on a regular basis to get past the bustle and individualism of daily life. Marriages "have problems and difficulties, surrounded as they are by growing secularization", the pope said in a message for a meeting in […]

  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 […]

  With wealthy Gulf tourists shunning Lebanon this summer, Hani Abdel Malek did not expect that hundreds of Syrians fleeing violence in their homeland would spare his luxury hotel a bad season. All 82 of the Al-Safat hotel’s suites were empty just a week ago, but in just a single day last week, they were all […]

  WASHINGTON: The “great threat” to Israel from the Syrian conflict is that the Damascus government may collapse and its stock of chemical weapons and missiles fall into the hands of Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday. Interviewed on the U.S. “Fox News Sunday” television program, Netanyahu said Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government would […]

  President Michel Suleiman condemned on Monday the Syrian troops’ infiltration into Lebanon’s eastern border region of al-Qaa and the shelling of several border towns, particularly in the north. He tasked Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour to hand Syrian ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali a letter of complaint over his country’s endeavors along the Lebanese-Syrian border. Suleiman ordered […]

  DAOUD RAJIHA, the assassinated minister of defence, was one of several Christians drawn into the higher ranks of officialdom by the Assad clan that also belongs to a religious minority, the Alawites, an esoteric offshoot of Shia Islam. Keen to portray the uprising as a sectarian insurrection by extreme elements of the Sunni Muslim […]

  Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi received on Saturday a cable from French President Francois Hollande thanking him for congratulating him on his election as president and highlighting the depth of France’s ties with the Maronite church. He added: “France will always stand by Lebanon against all challenges in a region that is witnesses several changes.” “It will […]