Category: Middle East – Africa
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Lebanon has a large and influential Christian population — who are they and what is their history?
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Oct 8, 2024 / 09:00 am The Middle East edged closer to large-scale crisis this week as Iran launched a volley of missile attacks on Israel and Israel continued its bombardment of southern Lebanon. For a Middle Eastern nation, Lebanon has a large and influential Christian population. The latest figures…
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Bishops tell young African digital influencers: ‘Brace for the challenges ahead’
By Agnes Aineah ACI Africa, Sep 22, 2024 / 06:00 am Members of the African Synodal Digital Youth Influencers who graduated recently from the African Digital Faith Influencers Formation program of the Pan African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network (PACTPAN) were told to “brace for the challenges that lie ahead of [them] in the digital…
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From Rome to Beirut: Patriarch Agagianian’s remains laid to rest as beautification cause continues
ACI MENA, Sep 15, 2024 / 07:00 am On Thursday, Sept. 12, the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate held a grand ceremony in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square to welcome the remains of cardinal and patriarch Gregory Peter XV Agagianian from Rome. His body will be laid to rest in the Armenian Catholic Cathedral of St. Elias and St.…
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After 1,700 years, an ancient tree marks the vanished hometown of St. Augustine
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2024 / 07:00 am St. Augustine, whose feast day is today, Aug. 28, is associated most prominently with Hippo Regius, the ancient name of the modern city of Annaba in Algeria. Yet well before his ancient bishopric, Augustine hailed from a now-long-vanished town located just a few dozen…
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From Islam to the Catholic Church: One Turkish woman shares her story of faith
By Nathalie Ritzmann ACI MENA, Aug 21, 2024 / 06:00 am Born 61 years ago into a Muslim family in Turkey, Belkız was the first daughter after two sons. As a child, she went to the mosque and read the Koran in Arabic but says she didn’t understand it. After reading books on materialist philosophy…