Christian protesters return to Beirut square
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Lebanese Christian Mona Mehanna protested on March 14 last year to end Syria's hegemony in Lebanon. This year she is on the streets again, protesting with a group that enjoys Syrian support.
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Large numbers of people are in the Lebanese capital Beirut for a march in support of Syria's role in the country.
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Several hundred people rallied Wednesday to demand an end to what they said was the persecution of Christians in the Middle East that has forced thousands to flee the region.
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Thousands of people descended on central Beirut on Sunday ahead of a mass rally called by the Hezbollah-led opposition to escalate their drive to oust Lebanon's Western-backed government.
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BEIRUT -- In the mix of theater and pulpit that makes for a Hezbollah rally, the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, appeared yesterday before hundreds of thousands of supporters for the first time since its war with Israel ended last month.
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Lebanon's pro-Syrian Hezbollah-led opposition is set to protest in central Beirut on Friday aiming to bring down the U.S.-backed government, which has vowed it will not yield to the pressure.
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Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah   emerged in public on Friday for the first time since the war   with Israel, waving to a sea of his supporters thronging   southern Beirut for a "divine victory" rally.
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Thousands of people marched in Britain, South Africa and Egypt Saturday to protest the Israeli offensive in Lebanon, some demanding an immediate halt to the fighting and others pressing for sanctions against Israel.
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BEIRUT -- The radical Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah and its allies escalated Lebanon's month-long political crisis into a popular confrontation yesterday, sending hundreds of thousands of its supporters into the streets of downtown Beirut.
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Tens of thousands of Hizbollah   supporters gathered in the group's Beirut stronghold on Friday,   obeying a call by Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for   a mass rally to mark the "divine victory" over Israel.
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Thousands of Hezbollah supporters poured into Beirut, vowing to stay until the Lebanese government falls.
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An explosion rocked a Christian suburb in east Beirut on Monday, witnesses said.
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BEIRUT -- Two years to the minute after former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was blasted to death by a car bomb, thousands of his followers lapsed into quiet yesterday as church bells clanged and a muezzin sang the call to prayer: "God is great."
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Hundreds of Hezbollah supporters from across southern Lebanon began marching toward Beirut on Thursday for a rally to showcase the group's insistence it won't disarm.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Muslims and Christians united in the hope that the festive season will herald a new dawn after four years of violence, attending midnight mass in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ.
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Construction work resumed Sunday on a ramp leading to a disputed holy site in Jerusalem, despite objections from the Muslim world and two days of violent Palestinian protest.
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Thousands of Lebanese have been pouring into Beirut for a Hezbollah-led protest aimed at toppling the Western-backed government, which has vowed it will not buckle under the pressure.