Lebanon's Catholic schools are known for high academic standards, with students typically learning in Arabic, French and English. The country has over 300 Catholic schools, which educate some 200,000 students. Ninety of those schools, located in the poorest rural and urban regions,
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 the country this summer for their annual
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 Ignace Joseph III Younan told the world's
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 in which poverty is now a reality
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 least then we had some food to
While the Vatican confirmed Pope Francis' hope to travel to Kazakhstan this year, it did not confirm a news story that Pope Francis could meet Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow in Jerusalem in June.
Pope Francis and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev spoke
Two weeks after meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican and inviting him again to visit Lebanon, President Michel Aoun tweeted that the visit could take place as early as June.
The "Lebanese Presidency" Twitter account said, in Arabic, "President Aoun was informed by
Pope Francis told Lebanon's president the country has a special place in his prayers, and he reiterated his intention to visit.
During his March 21 meeting at the Vatican with President Michel Aoun, a Maronite Catholic, Pope Francis noted that, despite the current
Catholic leaders from Europe, the United States and Canada called on their governments to support Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai's appeal for an international conference to protect Lebanon.
In a joint statement issued March 1, the leaders said such a conference must find guarantees
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 Gallagher.
And after meeting with families of the