Aleppo, besieged and destroyed in Syria's war, is calm now, but 11 years of war and the accompanying economic sanctions have left the city impoverished. "We don't have any direct violence, armed groups or bombardments on ...
For the poor in Lebanon whose lives are clouded in misery, even a fresh coat of paint can brighten bleak living conditions. That's what Caritas Lebanon youth volunteers are doing for 40 needy families all over ...
Although security issues in the Middle East have declined in recent years, the challenges that remain are "getting more complex, as we have entered a tunnel whose darkness has not yet subsided," Syriac Catholic Patriarch ...
Like a light piercing through the darkness of despair in beleaguered Lebanon, two martyred Lebanese Capuchin priests were beatified on the eve of Pentecost. The beatification comes as Lebanon is drowning in a catastrophic economic meltdown ...
The war in Syria is mostly over, and not a house was unaffected, said a nun based there. But now, the economy is so bad that people look back on the war and say, "at ...
The Vatican's foreign minister traveled to Lebanon with messages for its politicians and for ordinary people. Lebanon's leaders must "make the decisive decision to work for peace and not for their own interests," said Archbishop Paul ...
For 1,600 Maronite Catholic children in crisis-stricken Lebanon, Advent has awakened a ray of hope. They were guests at a Christmas Village, organized especially for them by their archdiocese, with help from Catholics in other countries. "The ...
Syriac Catholic bishops, meeting in Lebanon for the first time since 2019 because of the pandemic, called on governments in the Middle East to work "to stop wars and renounce the logic of sectarianism and ...
At the start of a new academic year, uncertainty clouds the future of Catholic schools in Lebanon. Amid the country's economic meltdown, Catholic schools have exhausted their resources, and their future is at risk. Of Lebanon's ...
A year after the catastrophic Beirut port blast, the wounds of the people in Lebanon are scarred by the memory of the tragedy, and cries for justice escalate. This year, Aug. 4 was declared a ...
