Lebanon

Amal MP: Berri to approve of ‘any’ electoral law Christians agree on

September 28, 2012 News

28/9/2012 Development and Liberation bloc MP Michel Moussa said on Thursday that Speaker Nabih Berri will approve of any electoral law that the Lebanese Christian parties agree on. “Berri will support any law that Christian parties agree on even if they agree on the Orthodox proposal,” Moussa told MTV. He added that it was “important [...]

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Armenian churches not subjected to violations in Lebanon

September 21, 2012 News

19/9/2012 BEIRUT. – There were no violations registered against the Armenian churches in Lebanon, chief editor of the Aztag newspaper published in Lebanon Shahan Kandaharyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am adding violation against the Armenian St Cross Catholic Church on the eve of the Pope Benedict XVI’s visit was the only incident. “Police launched an investigation. However, [...]

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Berri wants Christian unity on electoral law

September 21, 2012 Featured News

The Daily Star 21/9/2012 BEIRUT: If Christian parties adopt the Orthodox Gathering’s electoral proposal Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri will most likely accept it, Tyre MP Ali Khreis said Thursday. In an interview with the Voice of Lebanon radio station, Khreis, a member of Berri’s parliamentary bloc, said that the speaker was very much concerned that [...]

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KFC In Lebanon Burned In Anger Over Pope Visit

September 15, 2012 News

Reuters 14/9/2012 TRIPOLI, Lebanon, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters set alight a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, witnesses said, chanting against the pope’s visit to Lebanon and shouting anti-American slogans. Locals watching the attack said some people were shouting, “We don’t want the pope” and [...]

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PROJECTS PREPARING FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE (1915-2015)

September 3, 2012 Featured News

3/9/2012 His Holiness Aram I announced the implementation of three projects as part of the preparation of the 100th Anniversary Commemorations of the Armenian Genocide. The architects of the Catholicosate are invited to complete the tasks. 1. Renovation of the Statue symbolizing the post-genocide revival of the Armenian people (Bikfaya, Lebanon). The bronze Statue was [...]

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Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas returned to Lebanon

September 3, 2012 Featured News

3/9/2012 LEBANON/BEIRUT:His Holiness Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas and the delegation returned to Beirut – Lebanon from Germany after the successful surgery on 29 August 2012 after almost 3 months period of the time. Holy Father was received at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut by Their Eminence the Metropolitan’s of Lebanon, group [...]

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Syrian Christians in 2-week blockade by rebel fighters, residents desperate

August 27, 2012 Featured News

REUTERS Khaled Al Hariri 28/8/2012 An estimated 12,000 people have spent two weeks blockaded in the Christian town of Rableh, Syria, near Homs in the south. Experiencing a shortage of food and medical supplies, residents could not leave as rebel snipers were shooting at them. ­The town, close to the border with Lebanon, was liberated [...]

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Syria Christian refugees in Lebanon fear Islamist rebels

August 22, 2012 Featured News

Alexandra Sandels and Patrick J. McDonnell Los Angeles Times 22/8/2012 ZAHLE, Lebanon — For most of the refugees streaming across the border into Lebanon, Syrian President Bashar Assad is to blame for the violence back home and the rebel effort to oust him is laudable. For the traumatized Christians among them, it’s often the opposite. [...]

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Catholicos Aram I meets Lebanon’s Armenian Relief Cross reps

August 18, 2012 News

17/8/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – On August 16, His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, met with the representatives of the new regional department of Armenian Relief Cross in Lebanon. He was briefed on the organization’s further programs, with scholarship for Armenian college students, aid to vulnerable families and to the elderly among [...]

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Christian Syrian famlies seek asylum in Lebanon

August 5, 2012 News

By Gilane Fatayri Al Arabiya 3/8/2012 As cities of Damascus and Aleppo entered into the confrontation where the Christians demographic weight is at its most, the number of Syrian Christian families displaced to Lebanon is increasing significantly. Refugees have been distributed along the extended length of the coastline between Antelias and Byblos area where residents [...]

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The refugees with nowhere to turn: Syrian Christians share their stories

August 5, 2012 Featured News

SyndiGate.info 5/8/2012 George is wounded but he has no scars. It’s pain of an emotional kind that ails him. He feels scorned and humiliated, like a man who ended up on the bad side of a deal through no fault of his own. A Christian from Homs, Syria, George, who won’t give his last name [...]

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Christians Flee from Radical Rebels in Syria

July 26, 2012 Featured News

By Ulrike Putz in Qa, Lebanon 25/7/2012 Thousands of Syrians are fleeing into neighboring Lebanon — not entirely due to fear of the Assad regime. The country’s minority Christian population is suffering under attacks waged by rebel troops. In the Beqaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, Christian families are finding temporary refuge, but they are still [...]

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Geagea: Christians must spearhead change

May 11, 2012 News
Geagea: “It is beneficial for Christians in Syria to side with” the revolution. (The Daily Star/Aldo Ayoub/HO)

By Nicholas Blanford The Daily Star 11/5/2012 MAARAB, Lebanon: The Christians of the Middle East should not view with trepidation the turmoil engulfing the region over the past 18 months, Syria especially, but should instead seize the initiative to advance change and ensure communal survival, says Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea. “We should spearhead any [...]

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Frontpage coverage of the Armenian Genocide in the foreign media opens in Beirut

May 3, 2012 News

2/5/2012 A temporary exhibition on “The Armenian Genocide: Frontpage Coverage in the Foreign Media” opened at the Capuchin Church in Beirut. The exhibition was organized by Central Body of Lebanon on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute with the support of the Beirut City Hall. The exhibition presents about [...]

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Orthodox Archbishop Audi says Lebanon in need of moral renaissance

April 18, 2012 News
Beirut Metropolitan Orthodox Archbishop Elias Audi attends a religious service at Saint George Orthodox Cathedral in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. (The Daily Star/Mohammad Azakir)

The Daily Star 17/4/2012 BEIRUT: Beirut Metropolitan Orthodox Archbishop Elias Audi expressed dismay Sunday over the country’s current social and political conditions, calling for a moral renaissance and asking people and politicians to stand together for the sake of a brighter future.On the occasion of Easter Sunday for Christian denominations that follow the Eastern calendar, [...]

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The first ever Armenian Genocide monument to be erected at the Catholicosate of Cilicia

April 14, 2012 Featured News

14/4/2012 The first Armenian Genocide monument ever to be erected in the world, memorial for the Martyrs of the 1915 Genocide in the courtyard of the Catholicosate of Cilicia in Antelias Lebanon. The Martyrs’ Chapel was built when the remains of one-and-a-half million victims were brought from the desert of Der Zor to Antelias, Lebanon. [...]

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Syria uprising lays siege to leading religious figures

March 28, 2012 News

By Hussein Dakroub The Daily Star 28/3/2012 BEIRUT: The yearlong crisis in Syria which has deepened divisions among Lebanon’s rival political leaders is now spreading to Lebanese religious authorities on both sides of the sectarian fence. With the Hezbollah-led March 8 alliance and the opposition March 14 coalition taking diametrically opposed sides on the unrest [...]

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TO THE ATTENTION OF ARMENIAN PUBLISHERS AND WRITERS IN DIASPORA

March 26, 2012 News

24/6/2012 Every year in November, the Catholicosate of Cilicia organizes a book fair under the auspices of His Holiness Aram I. All books in Armenian published in Lebanon and the countries in the region participate. The exhibition also includes books in foreign languages written about Armenians and Armenian issues. Based on the success of the [...]

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Maronite patriarch’s interview on Syria stirs new criticism

March 19, 2012 News

The Daily Star 10/3/2012 BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai’s recent remarks on the ongoing developments in Syria and the challenges facing Christians in the region is drawing another round of criticism from March 14 figures. In an interview with Reuters earlier in the week, Rai said he fears that the so-called Arab Spring could turn [...]

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Arab Christians need to feel secure

March 7, 2012 Featured News
A file photo shows Iraqis pray during the Christmas Eve mass at St Joseph’s Chaldean church in Baghdad

By Joseph A. Kechichian, Special to Gulf News 7/3/2012 Fleeing native lands is not the answer; they have to insist on equal rights, elect capable and sensible leaders and muzzle clerics who thrive on fear. Despite understandable rhetoric, neither Nouri Al Maliki in Iraq nor Bashar Al Assad in Syria will desist from sacrificing their [...]

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Syrian Christians fleeing to Lebanon

March 7, 2012 News

7/3/2012 Amid reports that 1,000 Syrians are now fleeing the country daily for Lebanon, the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Lebanon described the Church’s response. “We have direct experience of Christian families who have fled to Syria [from] the violence or the oppression of the regime,” said Father Paul Karam. “There are [...]

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At stake, a Damascus bond – Why fate of uprising will have a bearing on many Indians

March 3, 2012 Featured News

K.P. NAYAR IN DAMASCUS 3/3/2012 Much more is at stake for the people of India than for their government in New Delhi in the current uprising against Syria’s Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party and the country’s President, Bashar al Assad. If Assad is overwhelmed by the ongoing rebellion against him, it may be the end of [...]

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Lebanon held commemoration event to honor victims of Sumgait massacres

February 28, 2012 Featured News

28/2/2012 BEIRUT. – All Armenian churches in Lebanon held commemoration liturgy for the victims of Sumgait massacres on Feb. 26. After the liturgy in the Antelias Armenian church, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I and Armenia’s Ambassador to Lebanon Ashot Kocharyan delivered speeches. The Ambassador stated in particular that the severest ethnic [...]

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Lebanese Lenten traditions look to the veg basket

February 22, 2012 News

By Olivia Alabaster The Daily Star 22/2/2012 BEIRUT: For 40 days, Christians around the world commemorate the period ahead of the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday, and while various churches celebrate Lent in different ways, prayer and fasting are common themes. In Lebanon, followers of the Maronite and Orthodox churches, in line with Eastern [...]

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Emergency Assistance to Syrian IDPs and Refugees

February 13, 2012 News

13/2/2012 1.Brief description of the emergency Since March 2011, anti-government protests in Syria continue to grow and have led to military actions between armed groups and government forces resulting in internal displacement of Syrian civilians throughout the country, as well as a rise in the number of Syrian refugees in the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, [...]

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