Turkish security forces (back) keep watch as Lebanon's Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rahi (C, with flowers) arrives at the small Agia Marina Maronite church in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Father Iosif Skender, a Maronite priest, gives Holy Communion to a member of the congregation at the Church of St. George in ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots to the ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus | In the coffee shop at this farming village on the northern Cyprus coast, the conversation jumps from one hardship to the next: a bad rainy season, a religion weakened by ...

KORMAKITI, Cyprus — With its lush green meadows and fragrant citrus groves, this sun-drenched village overlooking the Mediterranean seems like the perfect island getaway. But for its handful of ...

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KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — Only about 900 people in the world speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic. The offshoot of Syrian Arabic has been passed on orally over the centuries. Now it is at risk of extinction.

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus | In the coffee shop at this farming village on the northern Cyprus coast, the conversation jumps from one hardship to the next: a bad rainy season, a religion weakened by ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis’ cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots to the ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus, Nov 30 (Reuters) - As day breaks over a tiny hamlet in north-west Cyprus, some 20 people in an ancient Church observe a morning liturgy in an even more ancient language. For ...