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Youssef Antoun Makhlouf was born in 1828, in Bekaa Kafra (North Lebanon). He had a true Christian upbringing, which had given him a passion for prayer. Then he followed his two hermit uncles in the hermitage of the St Antonious Kozhaya monastery and was converted to monastic and hermetical ...
In a country suffering from a severe economic, political and social crisis, still in need of humanitarian aid, the Church continues to be a sign of ...
official Roman State law center and this recognition extended to the Byzantium Empire. Beirut had the preferred law school for law students and professors flocking from the four corners of the Empire. Beirut was called “Mother of laws” and “The most magnificent city” during the Roman Empire. Emperor wet-nurse of laws”. In the 5th century, Beirut law school started teaching law in both Latin and Greek languages. Paradoxically, the main language of the common people was the written Syriac l anguage/Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus. Another demonstration that written ...
Posted on September 25, 2008 (and written in Oct. 26, 2207) Note: This lengthy article was meant to be exhaustive. If you want me to split it in two articles, I will be ready to do it. It coincided that I was reading chapters of two books concomitantly “Quand l’Amerique refait le Monde” by Ghassan Salameh (Salami) and “ L’Apocalypse” by Oriana Fallaci when I realized that the topic of current Islamic fundamentalism is wreaking havoc on the disposition of many western people. Mostly, the western people tended to be liberal in many issues but could no longer reconcile a liberal ...