This Is Beirut 2024-04-07 21:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Cypriot Prime Minister, Nikos Christodoulides, is expected to land in Beirut on Monday morning. His official visit will center around finding possible solutions with Lebanese authorities for the incessant flow of displaced Syrians to the island from the Lebanese coast. He will be accompanied by his Minister of Interior and Foreign Affairs, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-07 20:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The various Lebanese security services were mobilized on Sunday to find Pascal Sleiman, the Lebanese Forces coordinator in Jbeil, who had been kidnapped earlier in the day near the village of Hakel, in this caza. Sleiman was on his way from Khrabeh, where he was offering condolences to acquaintances, to his own village, Mayfouk, when four armed ...
2024-04-07 16:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tensions escalated in southern Lebanon on Sunday morning when Hezbollah bombarded Israeli positions in the Golan Heights and northern Israel, "targeting the Kileh air defense headquarters and the Yoav missile and artillery base with dozens of Katyusha rockets," according to a Hezb statement. The rockets were launched in response to strikes by ...
2024-04-07 14:39 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Metropolitan Elias Audi criticized Lebanon's leaders and accused them of being "responsible for the high level of corruption and dysfunction that has shaken Lebanon, and then washing their hands of their own actions." During his Sunday sermon, Bishop Audi lashed out against "a system marked by injustice and inequality." He particularly blamed ...
2024-04-07 14:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
During the Sunday Mass in Bkerke, Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai emphasized that the fate of a country to be dragged into war is not in the hands of one entity but rather a collective decision from the state as a whole to protect the country. He stated, "The decision to resort to war should not be taken by a person, a party or a group of ...
2024-04-07 12:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cypriot Prime Minister Nikos Christodoulides is scheduled to meet European Union (EU) President Ursula von der Leyen in Athens on Sunday, before his trip to Beirut on Monday. On the agenda: the influx of Syrian migrants from Lebanon. Nicosia wants to seek Brussels' help in resolving this issue. On Tuesday, the Cypriot President, who is also Prime ...
2024-04-07 10:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli fighter jets launched strikes shortly after midnight on Sunday. They targeted a vacant warehouse in the town of Sefri in the Baalbeck district and strategic positions along the eastern Lebanese mountain range near the outskirts of Janta, close to the Lebanese-Syrian border, without causing human casualties. Israel announced that the ...
2024-04-07 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
A new soteriological policy is taking over the Western world. Its origins are academic, albeit unscientific and anti-academic. Blending politics, religion, puritanism and ideology, it echoes the darkest times of witch hunts. In this series of four articles, we will shed light on this new religion that is captivating the Western elites. The topic ...
2024-04-06 22:08 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel in Lebanon accused Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad of “normalization with Israel,” in a statement published on April 3 and picked up by the Hezbollah-affiliated daily al-Akhbar. According to information provided to This Is Beirut, the smear campaign against Mouawad is also affecting the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-06 19:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hezbollah is reportedly “unable to sustain” its fight against Israel on the southern front, as per information obtained by This is Beirut, leaked by Hezbollah officials. According to these sources, the pro-Iranian party is also leaning towards the American diplomatic initiative for a settlement on the Lebanese-Israeli border, “in exchange ...
2024-04-06 17:00 - Reading : 10 minute(s)
Sexual violence, especially in schools, remains a delicate and often concealed issue. What initiatives have been implemented in Lebanon to promote awareness, prevention, and intervention against this scourge? Who among us hasn't heard rumors about children falling victim to sexual abuse by adults in Lebanese schools? If these cases of abuse, ...
Fady Noun 2024-04-06 10:58 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
How to live honorably as Christians in the Arab-Muslim world. This is the central question posed in the book "Christians in Arab Politics, Reclaiming the Pact of Citizenship," a short essay by Tarek Mitri (128 pages), former Minister, former Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Libya, and current Dean of Saint George University in ...