Jan. 9, 2025 has become a historic date for the Lebanese people as a presidential vacancy that lasted over two years has come to an end. With a divided Christian majority, Lebanon has elected a ...

In a workshop in an infamous refugee camp in Beirut, Palestinian women practice an ancient art form — as a livelihood, and ...

The votes of another Christian party, the Free Patriotic Movement led by Gebran Bassil, and Lebanon's main Druze faction, the Progressive Socialist Party led by the Jumblatt family, are expected ...

9, 2025. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.) Listen In Lebanon, even Muslims think the Christian identity in the country “is important,” according to the Middle Eastern’s ambassador to the Vatican.

The Lebanese president has to be a Maronite Christian, according to Lebanon’s political representation system. The current leading candidate is the head of the Lebanese army, General Joseph Aoun ...

Under Lebanon's religious power-sharing system, the president must be a Maronite Christian. Lebanon has been without a president since October 2022, when Michel Aoun - no relation to the army chief - ...

“We recently sewed a wedding dress for a young woman in ... camp shows the bodies of Palestinian refugees killed by Christian Lebanese militia fighters allied with Israel. Hanan Zarura survived ...

The family received “a big hug” from the Israeli society, he says, as other Jewish families took them on tours around the country. Elkhoury explained that as a Lebanese Christian, he is not Arab.