KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (Reuters) – As day breaks over a tiny hamlet in north-west Cyprus, some 20 people in an ancient Church observe a morning liturgy in an even more ancient language. For centuries, ...

(AINA) -- The Coalition of American Assyrians and Maronites (CAAM), which includes seven Assyrian and Maronite Organizations, has sent an official letter to the Arab American Institute, asking it to ...

Only a few times a year Ninos Josephides, a Maronite Cypriot, is allowed to visit his home village in the Turkish-occupied part of divided Cyprus. But he can't visit his house. It was destroyed long ...

BEIRUT-- Church bells rang, horns blasted and firecrackers echoed throughout Lebanon as it was announced that Bishop Bechara Rai of Jbeil, Lebanon, had been elected the new patriarch of the Maronite ...

Lebanon's Maronites make up the largest Christian community in the country - a community where religion and politics are inextricably mixed. Traditionally Maronites sit at the top table of power.

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots to the ...

While browsing the Internet for information on the Galilee town of Gush Halav, we found these words on a site linked to the Ministry of Tourism: “The Arab village of Gush Halav is situated in Israel’s ...

Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke to his disciples, is chanted during daily Mass at St. Jude Catholic Church, which uses the Maronite Rite. The 200 parishioners of the Orlando church are mostly ...

BEIRUT (CNS) — The new patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church pledged to work with Muslims, noting that Lebanon is a country of partnership between Muslims and Christians. Patriarch Bechara Rai ...

Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots to the language Jesus Christ ...