For Morocco’s Jews, the festival of Purim, beginning March 13, has contemporary resonance, illustrating the tenuous existence ...

On the walls of the snug, five-table dining room are genealogical sketches of more than a dozen Lebanese families that helped found the city’s St. Joseph Maronite Catholic Church ... when you would ...

The Voboril family altar in Birmingham, Alabama The Voboril family icon wall in Birmingham, Alabama Another powerful witness to the sacred in the home is our local Fraternus chapter. For those who ...

Marriages that cross religious boundaries (among Christians, Muslims, and Druze) and sectarian lines (between Maronites and Roman Catholics, for instance, or Sunnis and Shiites) are rare in Lebanon.

President Aoun's words came during his reception this afternoon at Baabda Palace of a delegation from the Lebanese Maronite Order, led by its General President, Abbot Hadi Mahfouz, who congratulated ...

GEORGE TOWN: Time changes everything, even the altars for divine worship that have long been an integral part of Straits Chinese (Baba Nyonya) homes. While these were once elaborate set-ups ...

KFAR KILA, Lebanon — Israeli troops withdrew from all but five positions in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, allowing displaced residents to return to border villages largely destroyed in more than a year ...

KFAR KILA, Lebanon — Israeli forces withdrew Tuesday from border villages in southern Lebanon under a deadline spelled out in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement that ended the latest Israel ...

This alliance, which included the Maronite Phalangist (Kataib) Party, the Lebanese Forces, Walid Jumblatt’s Druze Progressive Socialist Party, and the Future Movement—then led by Saad Hariri—became ...

The withdrawal left behind widespread destruction, especially in Kfar Kila, where 90 per cent of homes were destroyed. Lebanese officials and Hezbollah criticized Israel's continued presence ...

Aoun, a Maronite Christian, selected Nawaf Salam, a scion of a prominent Sunni family, as Lebanon’s prime minister. Middle East Eye delivers independent and unrivalled coverage and analysis of ...