We are drawn to the news of Gaza today, the news of its young and its old, its free people as well as its imprisoned ones... We fix our eyes on its sorrows, its indignations, and the remnants of joy in it, and we look forward with it to the days of its victory. Yesterday, ...
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The Most Beautiful Lebanon
Today I would like to blame my generation for what we have done to some of our youth by instilling in them the sins of the war that was mistakenly called the “Two Year-War”! When I meet a young man who adopts the hatred of adults who had participated in the war, I feel ashamed ...
Read moreThe Truly Living
Do not accept to sit on the sidelines of life, to ascend neutrality, which is competed over by the dead, as your throne! The truly living are the ones who are concerned that this worldly life be more mindful, loving and peaceful!
Read moreWar of the World
A few days ago, Netanyahu threatened to eradicate Lebanon. Has Israel begun to implement the so-called “map of the new Middle East”? There is a primordial question. A country that was founded, on usurpation, with global support, is it resuming its wars singlehandedly? Also few days ago, the president of France said: “Israel has the ...
Read moreThe Usurping Entity
When “entity” is said about a homeland, what is meant would be a land with well-known borders, as well as political, economic, and other constituent elements… But the phrase entitled here, with which we describe Israel, does not recognize that the territory it inhabits is an entity, but rather tells the story of the spiteful ...
Read moreThe Cure of Blindness
Despite its divisions and polarities, Christian Zionism concurs on three: A literal reading of Holy Scriptures, the teaching about the eschaton in the future, and the return of the Jews to their “land”. Ideas do have a source. This made its theorists distinguish between what, in scriptures, refers to Israel and what refers to the ...
Read moreThe Word of Truth
You will not find worse statements about the Church than those uttered by Zionist Christians. Some people are blind, brainless, mouthpieces for distortion. The most deplorable thing ever is that, to spread their distortions, they rely on people who follow them without examination. Is there a Christian, who knows some of the truth, who says ...
Read moreDeborah Feldman
I came to learn, by chance, about the Jewish writer Deborah Feldman, in published pages. I liked to get to know her more. Those who escape from the intolerance of “seclusion” and its blindness to the common good hold a certain excitement. In short, Deborah is a writer who rebels against everything that makes women ...
Read moreThe Bells of Return
The position, in which I stand in the service of our Church, was filled, prior to me, only by priests who were displaced by Israel from their country, in the year 1948, following the “Nakba”. In more precise terms, the work in the Church which I entered, as a minister, rested on priests from there ...
Read moreA Symposium for a Hundred Years!
Yesterday, I participated in a symposium called by the Faculty of Religious Sciences at Saint Joseph University, in Beirut. The symposium which was organized by the university “on the Theological Renewal in the Thought of Metropolitan George Khodr” on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, was attended by professors from diverse backgrounds. ...
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