Salwa Hanna has summed up all the love in her comment on lines that were written in tribute to His Holiness Pope Francis who has bid farewell to Iraq today. She said: “I miss Baghdad. I wish the Pope would take me with him”. The yearning of the child in us never slumbers. Lebanon’s media ...

I came to the Great Lent after great negligence. In our house, we were divided into two parts. The fasting part, were my mother and sister. I do not deny their influence on my new choices. However, fasting, as a practice, came to me as one of the gifts of the Word (I mean here ...

In the mid-third century, the Roman empire carried out a great persecution against the Church, which lasted for years. Many were martyred, while others apostatized openly. After the persecution subsided, those who lapsed asked that the Church grant them forgiveness. The faithful got divided in their respect. Some accepted them immediately. Some ruled that their ...

In his book “From Miziara to Washington”, Sarkis Naoum recounted that Mr Ghassan Tueni had told them that, in his early adulthood, he wrote an article he considered to be great, and handed it to his father. His father took the article, tore it to pieces, and threw it in the waste basket. Then he ...

Following Saturday’s Liturgy, Father Nehme Saliba, who had recently recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, said: “yesterday, our friend (…) had a PCR test to detect the Coronavirus, the result of which was positive. I am going to see him. I will carry to him the body and blood of the Lord”. Two young men who ...

“James”, my grandson, increases my sadness over the children in our closed world. The child wants to discover things. He wants to get out; to roam freely with his parents outside the door; to pray “in the midst of the assembly”. He wants to show love to nature, to caress the roses, and smell their ...

I had no idea that what was said by Metropolitan Epiphanios Zayed (+1982) in one of his poems, that is: “if devotion were to be judged by hair, then the he-goat would be the first monk”, was drawn from an old traditional saying. Today, I would like to exalt these words. The times (tend to) ...

My friend the journalist Anthony Majdalany offered me the book of the ingenious actress Liliane Nemri: “When the soul…talks”. He told me that, after an interview he had with her, she asked him to give it to someone he loves. Anthony, who has grown up right in front of my eyes, knows my relationship with ...