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BEIRUT: The Lebanese caretaker government held its second session amid the presidential vacuum on Wednesday. The ministers of the Free Patriotic Movement boycotted the session, arguing that a caretaker government has no right to hold sessions to manage the country’s affairs. The session was attended by 17 ministers, including seven of 12 Christian ministers. Hezbollah’s
BEIRUT: New Year’s Eve festivities in Lebanon may not go off with quite the same bang as in previous years if the government has its way. Lebanese who enjoy ringing in the new year with celebratory gunfire are in the government’s sights amid a security crackdown, with one minister taking aim at what he described as “delinquent and criminal acts.” Caretaker Interior Minister
WASHINGTON - News of the detention in Lebanon of Maronite Archbishop Moussa El-Hage, O.A.M. last month, as he was returning from a routine visit to his Episcopal See in Haifa and the Holy Land, has caused great concern. In solidarity with Patriarch Bechara Boutros Cardinal Raï and the Maronite Church, Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, issued the following statement:"The arbitrary detention and interrogation of Archbishop Moussa El-Hage, the Maronite Archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land, ...
A scene from a papal visit to Lebanon, Sept. 14, 2012. / Vatican MediaDenver Newsroom, Aug 15, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA).A Maronite Catholic archbishop was bringing aid back to Lebanon when he was wrongly detained by Lebanese authorities at the Israeli border, his supporters say. The U.S. bishops have spoken in his defense, objecting to the confiscation of medical aid and hundreds of thousands of dollars in monetary aid."The arbitrary detention and interrogation of Archbishop Moussa El-Hage, the Maronite Archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land, by Lebanese security, is cause for alarm," Bi...
News of the detention in Lebanon of Maronite Archbishop Moussa El-Hage, O.A.M. last month, as he was returning from a routine visit to his Episcopal See in Haifa and the Holy Land, has caused great concern.