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A tiny Christian village in northern Lebanon, perched on a hill overlooking Syria, Minjez is a bucolic and peaceful place by day but terrorized at night by shelling from across the border. "We can't sleep a wink," laments Marcele Shahine, a 37-year-...
NOW Lebanon
Pope Benedict XVI sets off Friday for a three-day visit to Lebanon which will demand a papal high-wire act in a Middle East country riven by sectarian tensions as fighting rages next door in Syria. The pontiff, 85, who has spent much of the year...