“There are about 35,000 Lebanese in this area. Between 13,000 and 15,000 are Maronites. The numbers of the community ... although much smaller in numbers than in the south, and generally non-Christian ...

Lebanese Maronite Christians and Israeli Alliances: During the Lebanese Civil War, some Maronite Christian militias allied with Israel, while others opposed it. Latin America inherited Spanish and ...

Lebanon was once a Christian-majority country, the only such one in the Middle East. In the early '40s, when Lebanon became independent, its population comprised Maronite Christians, Greek ...

There are about 400,000 Maronite Christians (about 50,000 in the U.S.). They have a Patriarch who lives in a monastery on Mount Lebanon. Their services are mostly in Syriac, the language in which ...

On Jan. 9, lawmakers elected Maronite Christian Joseph Aoun, a man of the «West,» to the position of head of state. Aoun was the top commander of Lebanon’s army and trained in the U.S., which ...

lie the Christian village of Kobeyat and the Moslem village of Jaafra. But there is bad blood between them. In the Lebanese rebellion of last summer, the 8,000 Maronite Roman Catholics of Kobeyat ...

Under multi-confessional Lebanon's power-sharing system, the president must be a Maronite Christian. In a country rocked by a civil war from 1975 to 1990, the deeply divided ruling class usually ...

Lebanon named a new head of the armed forces Thursday to succeed Joseph Aoun, who was appointed president earlier this year.

Christians began to outnumber the Druze; they also secured French consular protection, which increased their power. The erosion of Druze authority fostered anti-Maronite sentiment in the region. In ...

NNA - Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rahi met with Kataeb MP Salim Sayegh at the patriarchal seat in Bkerke on Tuesday, where they discussed key national issues. Following the meeting, Say ...

Lebanon’s president is elected by the parliament for a six-year term and, under the country’s system, must be a Maronite Christian. The eventual victor was the country’s military chief ...