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١- كنيسة سيدة عجلتون: سنة ١٦٤١ ابتنى ابو نوفل كنيسة وعين لها كاهناً يُقيم القداس فيها دائماً

   "دويهي" وهذه الكنيسة هي السيدة في عجلتون (المقاطعة الكسروانية ص ٧٣) وفي الجامع المفصل 

    ص ٤٤٦ والمطران دريان في معرض كلامهما عن البطريرك طوبيا الخازن يقولان انه: دفن في

    كنيسة السيدة المختصة بعائلته.

٢-  مار الياس بلونه: سنة ١٦٦٤ جدد الشيخ نمر ابن ابي نصيف الخازن دير مار الياس بلونه.

٣- مار الياس غوسطا:  سنة ١٦٨٠ بدأ الشيخ ابو قنصوه بناء دار عظيمة في غوسطا تلاصقها من

    الجهة القبلية كنيسة على اسم مار الياس الحي وتم بناؤها ١٦٨٩ (المقاطعة الكسروانية).

٤-  مار مارون كفردبيان: في سنة ١٦٩١ في ٢٨ ايلول كان مقتل زعرور وقيل انه بسبب زعرور

     وعصابته اضطر اولاد ابي نوفل ان يبنوا البرج المشهور في مزرعة  كفردبيان، وجعلوه طابقين،

     وما تزال في جدرانه المرامي التي كانوا يطلقون منها الرصاص (المقاطعة الكسروانية ص ٩٠).

٥- مار انطونيوس بقعاته: انشأه البطريرك طوبيا الخازن اذا كان بعد مطراناً قبل انعقاد المجمع اللبناني،

    لان السمعاني في المجمع المذكور نقل الرهبان منه (الجامع المفصل ٥٠٩).

By SAM F. GHATTAS, Associated Press Writer

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The U.N. Security Council's call for Syria to establish diplomatic ties with Lebanon will likely only stiffen Damascus' resolve against a move it has steadfastly rejected for six decades. At least three factors are at work to discourage Syria from heeding the U.N. resolution, aimed at restoring Lebanon's sovereignty following Syria's 29-year occupation of its smaller neighbor.

Uppermost among them, the resolution cannot be enforced. That makes it a piece of "propaganda with no political value that could provoke the Syrians and undermine resumption of relations," said Sateh Noureddine, managing editor of a pro-Syrian Lebanese newspaper, As-Safir.

by Nayla Razzouk
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon has welcomed a UN Security Council resolution calling on former powerbroker Syria to establish formal diplomatic relations with Beirut and demarcate their border, which prompted Damascus to claim interference it its affairs. Meanwhile, in a sign of ongoing strife between the two neighbors, pro-Syrian Palestinian militants and Lebanese army troops each beefed up their presence near the border following clashes that wounded two people a day earlier.

"The resolution is good because it encourages both brotherly countries to cooperate in order to implement two issues that were adopted by the national dialogue," or ongoing reconciliation talks among Lebanese leaders, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said Thursday.

Those issues are the establishment of formal diplomatic relations and the demarcation of the border, Siniora told An-Nahar newspaper. "Lebanon, as a state, did not have a say in it (the resolution), and we tried to soften the terms that were used and we succeeded in softening the terms," Siniora added.

BEIRUT (AFP) - Former Christian warlord Samir Geagea has said that the four Iranian diplomats kidnapped in 1982 in Lebanon by members of his now defunct Lebanese Forces militia died at least 20 years ago.

Geagea told AFP that when he became leader of the Lebanese Forces militia in 1986, he learned that the four missing Iranians "for sure died" in captivity.

Tehran and the Lebanese Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah have repeatedly claimed that the four missing Iranians are still alive and in Israel custody, after being handed over by the Lebanese Forces militia to then ally Israel.

The fate of the four has been one of the major points of indirect negotiations for a swap of prisoners and missing persons with Israel.