Greek rebels led by Mavrovouniotis landed in Beirut, 1826, to free Syria from Ottomans but failed. Local resistance and ...

MARONITE. The Maronite rite traces its origins to the work of St. Maron in the 4th century who founded a monastery east of Antioch. Later monks moved to the mountains in what is today Lebanon.

The bridegroom’s two brothers—a Maronite monk named Father Genadrios Mourani. 32, and Seminarian Jean Mourani. 23—arrived in nearby Tripoli with their cousin. Father Georges Mourani.

Scores of Christians – priests, mothers, children – were caught up in the violence triggered by a revolt that broke out in ...

While there, Pope Francis listened as Buddhist monks chanted and prayed while opening ... Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites in Lebanon, has prayed for Pope Francis publicly, asking that ...

Druze militias sacked Maronite Christian villages, killing eleven thousand people. Muslim mobs killed more than a tenth of Damascus’s Christian population in a matter of days. Churches and monasteries ...

Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis has prioritized engagement with other religious communities, reinforcing interfaith cooperation as a central theme of his leadership. His efforts have included ...

As a result, many of the refugees who escaped to Cyprus have chosen to stay there, with the help of the established Lebanese community on the island and the presence of the Maronite Church. “Most of ...

More than 1,200 years ago Celtic monks painstakingly recorded the Book of Kells. The religious text brings medieval art, religion and culture to the modern world. While Muskegon does not have the ...

Survivors gather at Crescent Isle’s monastery, seeking hope from the Moonken Monks. Raziel Tenza, a Twilight Monk descendant, must stop the traitor Nox and restore peace, as internal conflicts ...

A tense war of words between Recee Fox – the wife of De’Aaron Fox – and Malik Monk was all caught on video following Friday’s Kings-Spurs game. De’Aaron made his return to Sacramento for ...