A lawyer filed a criminal complaint against the Saudi al-Watan newspaper on Wednesday for publishing a caricature criticizing Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi’s visit to Syria. Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) said attorney Wadih Aql filed the complaint with the general prosecutor’s office against the newspaper’s publisher, its editor-in-chief and the caricaturist, Jihad Awrati. […]
New oil reserves were found off Lebanon’s shore along it’s northern maritime boundary with Cyprus and Syria, which could generate billions of dollars. According to a report published by Beicip Franlab, a French consultant, there are around 440 million barrels of oil in the area and the quantity could reach 675 million barrels. Lebanon had […]
As Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday that he would resign on Feb. 28, citing poor health, speculation is already mounting about his potential replacement. And Cardinal Peter Turkson, the current president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, is rumored to be a potential option. Here are five facts about the Vatican’s […]
Pope Benedict XVI will call it quits at the end of this month, clearing the way for an election of a new pope. The Vatican’s best guess as to when that’ll happen is sometime before Easter, which falls on March 31 this year. In the meantime, expect plenty of speculation (of both the informed and uninformed varities) to come pouring in about who Benedict’s successor will be.
So who are among the early favorites? The cardinals being name-dropped the most in early reports on Benedict’s resignation include: Marc Ouellet of Canada, Leonardo Sandri of Argentina, Francis Arinze of Nigeria, Peter Turkson of Ghana, Christoph Schoenborn of Austria, and Angelo Scola of Italy. The thing that jumps out the most from that list is that only Scola and Schoenborn hail from Europe, suggesting that the church may soon have its first non-European Holy Father in more than a thousand years. (For what it’s worth, Ouellet, Arinze, and Turkson currently make up many bookies’ top three.)
Pope Benedict XVI has chosen over one-half of the cardinals eligible to elect his successor.
On Behalf of the Maronite nation, I would like to thank our Holly Father Pope Benedict XVI. You gave the weak Maronite Nation strength and hope, with your visit and attention to the Lebanese Church. You strengthen the foundation of the Church through your leadership, teaching and love. As your last international trip, you chose […]
The period between the death or resignation of a Pope and the election of his successor, when the See of Peter is vacant, is called the Interregnum. This Latin term means between the reign (of one Pope and another). It is a period governed by papal law, which admits of no changes to Church […]
VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) – Pope Benedict XVI will resign his office on February 28, 2013. He will be 86 years old on April 16, 2013. Some early observers indicated his age would make him some sort of caretaker Pope. His pontificate has demonstrated the observers were wrong. He has been an indefatigable and tireless missionary of a Pope.
With the humility which has characterized his extraordinary papacy, the announcement was simple and straightforward. It was made to a consistory of his brothers in the episcopate, cardinals who had gathered in Rome where he will soon approve over 800 causes for canonization. He will become the first Pope since 1294 to resign his office. Here is his complete statement:
يحتفل موارنة لبنان غداً بعيد مار مارون. مناسبة تحولت لبنانياً إلى صورة ظلت تجمع رئيس الجمهورية ورئيسي الحكومة ومجلس النواب، حتى خلال أشد الأزمات عصفاً بلبنان. لكنها، للموارنة، لا بد أن تتعدى الصورة التذكارية، لتتحوّل مع كل الخضّات والاستحقاقات والانقسامات التي مروا بها، إلى مناسبة لمراجعة شاملة لدورهم في لبنان «للدفاع عن قيم […]
Lebanon’s Deputy Speaker Farid Makari on Sunday warned that the parliamentary elections set for the summer will not be held on time. “The elections will be postponed till after September for technical reasons,” Makari stated in a press conference. Concerning the electoral law issue, the deputy speaker said the Orthodox draft “cannot be [adopted] […]
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Population Movements to Keserwan - The Khazens and The Maans
ما جاء عن الثورة في المقاطعة الكسروانية
ثورة أهالي كسروان على المشايخ الخوازنة وأسبابها
Origins of the "Prince of Maronite" Title
Growing diversity: the Khazin sheiks and the clergy in the first decades of the 18th century
Historical Members:
Barbar Beik El Khazen [English]
Patriach Toubia Kaiss El Khazen(Biography & Life Part1 Part2) (Arabic)
Patriach Youssef Dargham El Khazen (Cont'd)
Cheikh Bishara Jafal El Khazen
Patriarch Youssef Raji El Khazen
The Martyrs Cheikh Philippe & Cheikh Farid El Khazen
Cheikh Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Hossun El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou-Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Francis Abee Nader & his son Yousef
Cheikh Abou-Kanso El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou Nader El Khazen
Cheikh Chafic El Khazen
Cheikh Keserwan El Khazen
Cheikh Serhal El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Rafiq El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Hanna El Khazen
Cheikha Arzi El Khazen
Marie El Khazen