A Maronite Christian from east Beirut, Ghosn, 40, and his brother Sami opened the Massaya Winery in 1998, at a time when Lebanon seemed on the rebound after a devastating civil war. French ...

The collapse of Hezbollah’s dominance has left a power vacuum in Lebanon—and a rare opening to reimagine the state.

Lebanon was once a Christian-majority country, the only such one in the Middle East. In the early '40s, when Lebanon became independent, its population comprised Maronite Christians, Greek ...

Patriarch 'Arida and his vision to found Lebanon as a “Christian state” led him and other Lebanese Maronite leaders to explore a possible alliance with the pre-1948 Zionist movement but without ...

An appeal on the anniversary of a conflict that has a starting date, but still no end date. The Maronite Church is ready to form a committee of elders called upon to overcome ‘conflicts and ...

Since the start of the Israel-Hezbollah war, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese have fled their ... is home to 7,000 Maronite Christians - and surrounded by firing on all sides.

Almost a century since Gibran’s words and exactly 50 years after the start of the country’s civil war, it seems that Lebanon ...

What happened next on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon, plunging it into 15 years of civil war. It would ...

The project showcases Lebanon’s remarkable religious diversity, with over 6,000 religious sites evenly divided between Christian and Muslim landmarks. Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi ...

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First vice-governor Wassim Manssouri had been acting head of the central bank, a post that is traditionally reserved for a Maronite Christian in Lebanon's sectarian power-sharing system of ...

The next challenges was to capture the beauty and atmosphere of the Qadisha Valley, the heartland of the Lebanon’s Maronite Christians, where we wanted to film with a hermit who lived in a ...