Eyes glazed, face impassive, she barely flinched. In this Maronite Christian village less than three miles from the Israeli ...

Maronite Christians are not usually thought of as candidates for sainthood. Followers of a fourth-century hermit named Maron, the sect seemed destined from the beginning to battle its way through ...

Lebanon's current president, Emile Lahoud, a Maronite Christian, sees Hezbollah as a legitimate political organization within Lebanon, not as a terrorist entity. "For us Lebanese, and I can tell ...

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 ...

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