I remember that even as kids in grade school, we sometimes congregated around various religious traditions or churches. This oftentimes involved making fun of one another's faith. But by far, the biggest religious divide was seldom represented, because Catholics had their own school system. We just didn't encounter them; nor they, us. Perhaps that is…
Youssef Antoun Makhlouf was born in 1828, in Bekaa Kafra (North Lebanon). He had a true Christian upbringing, which had given him a passion for prayer. Then he followed his two hermit uncles in the hermitage of the St Antonious Kozhaya monastery and was converted to monastic and hermetical .
Tuesday, April 18th, at 10am all of Israel came to a standstill. For 2 minutes the Nation stood in silence and remembrance of the 6,000,000 who perished in the Holocaust.