“She is like the light on the summit of the mountains.” That's what Pope John Paul II said of St. Rafqa Pietra Choboq ar-Rayes when he canonized her on June 10, 2001, giving Lebanon its first female ...

Hundreds of people packed into Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Easton on Thursday night to come within touching distance of the 100-year-old remains of a saint. Many came to be part of ...

Easton's Lebanese community will celebrate a major honor this week when the relics of the Maronite Church's only modern woman saint are brought to the Lebanese church on South Fourth Street. Our Lady ...

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Worshippers visited Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Easton for a special blessing Thursday night. The South Fourth Street church is one of about 20 churches nationwide to host the ...

Des reliques des trois saints libanais, saint Charbel (canonisé en 1977), sainte Rafqa (canonisée en 2001) et saint Hardini (canonisé en 2004), seront installées le dimanche 3 avril dans l’église ...

Pope John Paul II appealed for peace in the Middle East on Sunday as he elevated five people to sainthood, including Lebanon's first female saint. A tired-looking John Paul canonized the five amid ...

Une religieuse libanaise donnera, ce dimanche à l’église Sainte-Rita, une conférence sur l’histoire de sainte Rafqa, canonisée en 2001. L’occasion aussi d’un appel aux dons, pour aider le monastère de ...

LAWRENCE —North Andover resident, Dr. Rachelle Abou-Ezzi, was one of the many at St. Anthony Maronite Church to see the relics of St. Rafqa Sunday evening. "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity," ...

A decision has now been made on multimillion-dollar plans for a church in the semirural suburb of Austral after an independent planning panel initially deferred a decision on the proposal. The ...