Tag: maronite

Pope Benedict appointed 2 Eastern Catholic Cardinals

VATICAN CITY, February 01, 2013, thanks to Zenit.org– Pope Benedict XVI has appointed several new Cardinals created in last year’s consistory to appointments in several Vatican dicasteries.   Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai,…

APOCALYPSE AND RESURRECTION: News from Damascus

We have just received this email from His Grace Samir Nassar, Archbishop of Damascus of the Maronites, circulated by Bishop Nicholas Samra of the Melkite Eparchy of Newton in the USA.  …

Christian Arabs trying to revive Aramaic, language of Jesus

Thursday, May 31, 2012 | by diaa hadid associated press – jish, israel Two villages in the Holy Land’s tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language…

100 thousand dollars for the Syrian people, from Pope Benedict

From Patriarch Gregorios III Laham, of Antioch and all the East, Damascus, 31 March 2012: Patriarch Gregorios III, as President of the Assembly of the Catholic Hierarchy in Syria, together with Syrian…

An Arab Christian in the Universal Church

The Maronite Church traces its founding to St. John Maroun. It is the only Eastern Catholic Church that has never been separate from Rome. Instead of Latin, the language of the liturgy…

Russian Orthodox and Maronite Patriarchs Meet

BEIRUT, Lebanon, NOV. 17, 2011 thanks to Zenit.org The head of the Russian Orthodox Church met Tuesday with the Maronite Catholic patriarch of Antioch and other Eastern Catholic leaders who were in…