Lebanon's parliament is scheduled to meet on January 9 to elect a new president, aiming to end over two years without a head ...

Lebanon’s parliament will elect a president on January 9, the house’s Speaker announced on Thursday, jolting the political deadlock that has gripped the country for two years as a fragile ceasefire ...

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 ...