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الراعي إلى سانت لويس ومنها إلى روما

    في نبأ من ديترويت أن البطريرك الماروني مار بشاره بطرس الراعي عقد مؤتمراً صحافياً في مقر اقامته في فندق "الماريوت" في ديترويت تناول فيه زيارته الراعوية التي شملت المكسيك وكندا وميتشغن. وجدّد تأكيده أن المسيحيين في الشرق"ليسوا أقلية لأنهم في الأساس مواطنون وعمرهم 2000 سنة من الوجود وطبعوا بثقافتهم المسيحية الروحية والثقافية والاجتماعية […]

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Sarkozy and Hollande on Middle East: La Même Chose

      When the frontrunners in France’s presidential race took their seats on Thursday evening for a final televised debate, they did so with battle lines firmly entrenched. Incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande had spent the previous month on a vitriolic campaign trail exposing deep rifts among the French […]

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Berri Confirms Terrorist Group Entered Lebanon to Carry Out Political Assassinations

  Speaker Nabih Berri confirmed during Wednesday’s parliamentary meeting a list of politicians and figures targeted by extremist groups, describing the threat as serious and dangerous. According to NBN, Berri called on security agencies to follow up the issue. Local newspapers reported on Wednesday that international countries warned Lebanese officials that a terrorist group – linked […]

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Hollande officially new France’s president

  France’s first socialist leader in nearly 20 years is sworn in at a low-key official ceremony at the Elysée palace. François Hollande is welcomed by departing president Nicolas Sarkozy. They held a private meeting before Sarkozy left the palace. Hollande then makes his first speech as president, promising a new way forward for Europe […]

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the Defender of Marriage and Family

PROVIDENCE, RI (Catholic Online) – Thomas J. Tobin is the Bishop of the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island. He has stood strong in his defense of the dignity of every human person from conception to natural death as well as his defense of true marriage and the family and society founded upon it. He has tried to help erring Catholics, including Catholic politicians in his own Diocese, to turn from error and turn toward the truth. He is solid as a rock in his orthodoxy, but always defends the faith with a pastor’s heart.

In June of 2011, Rhode Island passed "civil union" legislation. The Bishop knew that such legislation was dangerous to the common good. He recognized that the continuing moral erosion of our culture which has as one of its bad fruits, the movement to eliminate marriage and the family and society founded upon it by giving a moral and legal equivalency to homosexual relationships.

The legislation contained what are called "religious exemptions". However, a group of homosexual equivalency activists who called themselves "Marriage Equality Rhode Island", who represent the "LGBTI"  (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Intersex) community  issued this statement upon the passage of the legislation:

"We are extremely disappointed that the Senate brazenly ignored the commonsense objections raised by equality and civil rights leaders here and across the country. This civil union bill contains dangerous and discriminatory language that, without question, will cause significant harm to countless gay and lesbian couples in loving, committed relationships, and we will continue to fight it through whatever means are necessary."

"Furthermore, we renew our request that the governor veto this hurtful and ill conceived bill. To not do so would be a slap in the face to the gay and lesbian community, and every Rhode Islander who cares about equal rights and protections for all our state’s citizens."

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Clashes in Tripoli

  Three people, including a Lebanese soldier, were killed and at least nine injured on Sunday in a gunfight between the residents of rival neighborhoods in the northern port city of Tripoli as the area witnessed intermittent clashes, the army and media reports said. Army troops, mainly from the Commando Regiment, began deploying in the afternoon […]

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