Lebanon’s president reassures Christians as they remain under pressureLebanese President Joseph Aoun denied there is a danger to the Christian presence in the country, but the faithful there continue to face violence, displacement, and pressure to leave.Vehicles make the journey back to the Christian villages of southern Lebanon. | Credit: Romy Haber/ACI MENABy Romy HaberFollow +November 13, 2026 at 7:00 AM ETOn Oct. 28, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told a delegation of French lawmakers who belong to a study group on Eastern Christians that “there is no danger to the Christian presence in Lebanon.” He pointed to the country’s tradition of Christian-Muslim coexistence and argued that what had happened in neighboring countries could not happen in Lebanon.Aoun’s assurance is weighed against the experiences of Christian communities across the country.Security concerns Security is the most immediate and tangible test. On Oct. 29, Maronite Father Samir Daou was found murdered by a Syrian worker. Months earlier, Father Pierre al-Rahi was killed by Israeli shelling. In February 2025, Armenian Apostolic Archimandrite Anania Kojanian was killed at his home.The losses extend beyond the clergy. In the past few months, Israeli strikes killed dentist James Karam and his children, Tony and Theodosia, as well as Pierre Moawad; his wife, Flavia Mourad; and Roula Matar.In the past years, the killings of Pascal Sleiman and Elias Hasrouni, both associated with the Lebanese Forces, a Christian political party opposed to Hezbollah, have also deepened fears. Fadi Bejjani, a former bodyguard to a Christian politician, died in a separate incident: a 2023 shootout involving local residents and Hezbollah gunmen after a truck carrying the group’s ammunition overturned.The circumstances of these deaths differ, but they highlight the most basic condition for remaining in Lebanon: personal security. In the south, the danger also takes the form of uprooting entire communities. Christian villages near the Israeli border have been caught in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite political and armed movement designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.In Qawzah, Father Antonios Hanna, pastor of St. Joseph Parish, recently told EWTN News that residents had been displaced as their village became a battleground. Homes and the parish church have sustained damage.Christians who have stayed in Rmeish, Ain Ebel, and Debel, three villages near Lebanon’s border with Israel known as the “delta of resilience” face a different ordeal. Residents are cut off from jobs, universities, and hospitals, and are dependent on coordinated convoys to leave or return to their home. Despite their attachment to their land, insecurity makes staying difficult, while displaced families need safety and reconstruction to return. Hezbollah has dragged Christian communities into a war they did not choose and cannot afford. Its disarmament is on the government’s agenda, and Lebanese authorities have intercepted explosives shipments and tightened financial restrictions. Yet these measures have so far had limited impact on the group’s ability to defy state authority and exert political and military influence.The politics of landLand is another part of the same question. Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rai, the Maronite patriarch, has warned of increasing land sales and urged Christian owners not to surrender the roots and future those properties represent.Various politicians, media outlets, and research centers have alleged that Hezbollah and affiliated financiers are behind large land purchases in Christian areas. Buying and selling property is normal in any country. But reports of coordinated purchases, unclear funding, and offers above market prices have raised fears that these transactions serve a strategy to expand the group’s territorial and political control.For minorities, land ownership is closely tied to survival.Representation, employment, and emigrationMeaningful participation in national life is equally important. A Christian president does not answer every question about Christians’ access to public employment and responsibility within state institutions.For example, as reported by the Lebanese newspaper Nidaa al-Watan, only three of 54 trainee accountants covered by a decree on transfers and appointments in public administrations were Christians. Lebanon’s constitution reserves Christian-Muslim parity for the highest civil-service positions while making qualifications and competence the standard for other public employment. However, certain figures warrant transparent answers about recruitment and access.Then there is the future of the young. A 2024 Arab Barometer survey found that 58% of Lebanese people ages 18 to 29 wanted to emigrate. That figure concerns Lebanese youth generally, rather than Christians alone. Lack of opportunities, instability, and the difficult financial crisis are making it hard for youth to stay in their homeland. Nonetheless, when young Christians leave in search of work and stability, their villages and parishes lose the families they might have formed and the skills they might have contributed. A parish’s future depends on whether the next generation can afford to build a life around it.Like all Lebanese, Christians have the right to live in peace on their own land, free from war and the coercive power of Islamist militias. The guarantee they need is a state capable of making those rights part of everyday life. This story was first published by ACI MENA, the Arabic-language sister service of EWTN News. It has been translated and adapted by EWTN News English.Which newsletter would you like?Select your newsletterDailyWeeklyThe Daily and the WeeklyI agree to receive communications from EWTN.You can unsubscribe from these communications at any time. For more information on how to unsubscribe, our privacy practices, and how we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, please review our Privacy Policy.SubscribeRomy HaberFollow +Romy Haber is a Lebanese journalist and researcher with a degree in journalism and postgraduate studies in international security, specializing in minority affairs in the Middle East. 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The Masonic Constitution of Lebanon: A Blueprint for Christian Suicide
The cited article from the EWTN News propaganda organ of the conciliar sect lays bare the catastrophic fruit of the Masonic-Liberal constitution imposed upon Lebanon—a constitution that enshrines the condemned error of separation of Church and State (Syllabus, Error 55) and the heresy of religious indifferentism (Syllabus, Errors 15-18). The article’s very framework—celebrating a “power-sharing arrangement” where the presidency is reserved for a Maronite, the premiership for a Sunni, the speakership for a Shiite—is a practical application of the Masonic dogma that the Catholic religion must not be the sole religion of the State (Syllabus, Error 77). This parity constitution is not a guarantee of Christian survival; it is the instrument of its dissolution. By granting equal political rights to the enemies of Christ—Muslims who deny His Divinity, His Incarnation, His Redemption—the Lebanese system violates the fundamental principle of Catholic political theology: “The State is bound to profess the Catholic religion and to protect it” (Pius IX, Quanta Cura; Leo XIII, Immortale Dei). The article’s silence on this supernatural truth is not an omission; it is a theological betrayal characteristic of the neo-church’s aggiornamento to the world.
“Coexistence” as Apostasy: The Neo-Church’s Complicity in the Erasure of the Social Kingship of Christ
President Aoun’s declaration—“there is no danger to the Christian presence in Lebanon… what had happened in neighboring countries could not happen in Lebanon”—is a lie straight from the pit of hell, echoed by the conciliar hierarchy. The article reports it without a whisper of protest. This is the language of Nostra Aetate and Dignitatis Humanae, the false gospels of Vatican II that teach dialogue replaces mission, coexistence replaces conquest. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” Lebanon is the living proof. The “coexistence” praised by Aoun and parroted by EWTN is the peace of the cemetery—a pax Masonica where the Church is reduced to a “community” among communities, stripped of her divine mandate to “teach all nations” (Mt 28:19) and to reign “from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth” (Ps 71:8). The article’s focus on “Christian-Muslim coexistence” is a spiritual adultery; it prostitutes the Bride of Christ to the followers of the False Prophet.
The Slaughter of the Clergy: The Price of Conciliar Pacifism
The article catalogues the murders: Father Samir Daou… Father Pierre al-Rahi… Archimandrite Anania Kojanian. Lay faithful butchered: James Karam and his children, Tony and Theodosia… Pierre Moawad, Flavia Mourad, Roula Matar. Political activists executed: Pascal Sleiman, Elias Hasrouni, Fadi Bejjani. And the neo-church’s response? Silence on the supernatural order. Not a word on the necessity of the Social Kingship of Christ as the only bulwark against Islamic tyranny. Not a word on the duty of the State to “repress the audacity of the wicked” (Leo XIII, Libertas) by the sword of justice. The conciliar “patriarch” al-Rai warns of land sales—but never warns of the loss of the Faith. He negotiates with Hezbollah, dialogues with Iran, embraces the enemies of the Cross. This is the fruit of Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned proposition 52: “Christ did not intend to establish the Church as a community lasting for centuries on earth”—for the neo-church hierarchy acts as if the Church were a mere NGO managing humanitarian decline. The blood of these martyrs cries out not for “security” or “parity,” but for a Catholic State that wields the secular arm in defense of the Faith—a State that does not exist because the conciliar sect has abolished the very concept.
Hezbollah’s Land Jihad: The Consequence of Denying Christ’s Temporal Kingship
The article details “coordinated purchases, unclear funding, and offers above market prices” by Hezbollah financiers to seize Christian land. This is jihad by demographic and economic conquest—hijra and tamkin. And why does it succeed? Because the Lebanese constitution, hailed by the article as the guarantor of Christian rights, legitimizes the political power of Islam. The Syllabus condemns the error that “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established” (Error 37); Lebanon’s constitution establishes a national mosque-state where Islamic law (Sharia) governs personal status for Muslims, and the Church is barred from the public square. The neo-church’s “Cardinal” al-Rai pleads with Christians not to sell—but he refuses to demand the abrogation of the Masonic constitution that makes the sale inevitable. He refuses to proclaim, as Pius XI did: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” Without the Kingship of Christ enshrined in positive law, land ownership is a mirage; the dhimmi owns nothing but his chains.
Employment Apartheid and the Demographic Death Spiral
“Only three of 54 trainee accountants… were Christians.” The article presents this as a bureaucratic anomaly requiring “transparent answers.” It is systemic apartheid engineered by the very “parity” system the article defends. When the State is not Catholic, the distribution of spoils follows tribal and sectarian lines—ta’ifiyya. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41); in Lebanon, the civil government is the sectarian warlord. The 58% youth emigration rate is not an economic statistic; it is the evacuation of the Church Militant from the battlefield. The article laments the loss of “skills” and “families they might have formed”—a purely naturalistic calculus. It never mentions the supernatural duty to remain and conquer for Christ, to “deny themselves and carry their cross” (Mt 16:24), to be “the salt of the earth” (Mt 5:13). Salt that has lost its savor—“good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden underfoot”. The neo-church’s “pastoral care” is reduced to managing the logistics of apostasy.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Abomination of Desolation
The source—ACI MENA / EWTN News—is a mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, founded by the pseudo-traditionalist Mother Angelica, fully integrated into the neo-church of the Antichrist. Its related articles promote “Pope Leo’s call to pray the rosary for peace”—antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the usurper of the See of Peter, a manifest heretic who promotes the Fratelli Tutti Masonic fraternity, the Amoris Laetitia adultery license, the Traditionis Custodes war on the True Mass. EWTN’s “journalism” is spiritual anesthesia: it reports the slaughter while hiding the Cause—the apostasy of the hierarchy, the Masonic constitution, the denial of Christ’s Kingship. It offers “newsletters” and “privacy policies” instead of the Catechism of the Council of Trent and the Syllabus of Pius IX. It is “a synagogue of Satan” (Apoc 2:9) masquerading as Catholic media.
The Only Remedy: The Integral Catholic Restoration
The article concludes: “Like all Lebanese, Christians have the right to live in peace on their own land, free from war and the coercive power of Islamist militias. The guarantee they need is a state capable of making those rights part of everyday life.” This is the liberal Masonic delusion. The only State that can guarantee Christian survival is the Catholic Confessional State, explicitly subordinated to Christ the King, whose laws are the Canons of the Church, whose magistrates are validly ordained bishops and priests, whose citizenship is Baptism. As Pius XI taught: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” (Quas Primas, citing Leo XIII). Lebanon will not be saved by “parity,” “dialogue,” “human rights,” or the neo-church’s rosary campaigns for “peace” with Islam. It will be saved only when the Social Kingship of Christ is proclaimed from the minarets converted into bell towers, when the Code of Canon Law (1917) replaces the Ta’if Agreement, when the True Mass is offered on altars cleansed of the Novus Ordo abomination. Until then, every “reassurance” from a Masonic president, every “warning” from a conciliar patriarch, every “report” from EWTN is one more nail in the coffin of Christian Lebanon. “Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it” (Ps 126:1). The house of Lebanon is built on the sand of Masonic liberty; the storm has come, and great is the fall thereof.
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Lebanon’s president reassures Christians as they remain under pressure (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.11.2026