As Israel and Hamas close-in on a ceasefire agreement, the Catholic ordinaries in the Holy Land said the deal is a necessary ...

I greet with joy His Beatitude Gregorios III Laham, Patriarch of Antioch for the Greek Melkite Church ... reality as the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. We enter the Church through ...

Report by Joe Farchakh, English adaptation by Karine Keuchkerian While MPs held non-binding consultations with Prime Minister ...

In previous columns, we shared stories of our visits to Lebanon — first in the early 1970s, during our time as a young entrepreneur in the Middle East and North Africa, and later in 2019, where we ...

The service was held amid tight security over fears of violence against Christian sites, with pickup trucks belonging to the ruling Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) parked around the church.

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

The 14-month-long Hezbollah-Israel conflict has caused extensive destruction to numerous landmarks and archaeological sites in eastern and southern Le ...

Greek Catholic (Melkite) archbishop of Acre, Haifa, Nazareth, and Galilee (on his left). (photo: Marinella Bandini/CNA / EWTN) Marinella Bandini/CNA Vatican December 30, 2024 The entry of the ...

The community is concentrated in Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Latakia and Hasaka, with most followers belonging to Eastern Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, and Melkite Greek Catholic churches.

the Greek Orthodox Church, the Saints Barbara and Takla Greek Catholic Cathedral, and the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Baalbek. "These sites now need huge budgets and intensive ...

As Israel and Hamas near a ceasefire, Catholic ordinaries in the Holy Land said the deal is a necessary step but also ...