Khazen

The architect Bernard Khoury returned to Beirut in the 1990s full of optimism about the reconstruction of his home town after 15 years of crushing civil war. 'To me Beirut was the most interesting laboratory in the world, the most dynamic city on earth,’ he explains. But his dream of being part of the promised culturally sensitive regeneration effort was never quite realised. 'In fact,’ he says, 'I believe that the disillusion and the outcome of the conflict has been more problematic than the conflict itself.’

Catholic Herlad news At least 60 Christians have been abducted by ISIS gunmen in a central town in Syria, according to 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.

Khazen History

Historical Feature:
Churches and Monasteries of the Khazen family