Romy Haber

Romy Haber

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.

Articles by Romy Haber

Middle Eastern influencers join Church’s first digital missionary jubilee

Jul 29, 2025 / 14:23 pm

Meet some of the digital missionaries from the Middle East who are in Rome this week for the Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers.

6 months into new presidency, Lebanese Christians take stock

Jul 14, 2025 / 05:00 am

Lebanon’s president, Joseph Aoun, faces Hezbollah, a broken state, and Christian expectations. How are Christians there evaluating his first six months?

Middle Eastern Christians speak: What they want from the next pope

May 5, 2025 / 17:12 pm

Here is what some Middle Eastern Christians say they are seeking from the next bishop of Rome.

Lebanese Christians celebrate Assad’s fall, see it as justice for years of oppression

Dec 10, 2024 / 17:20 pm

In the wake of the Assad regime’s fall in Syria, the streets of Lebanon were alive with celebration as church bells rang out and Lebanese Christians gathered en masse.

Trump’s return: Lebanese Christian politicians eye peace, security, and U.S. support

Nov 8, 2024 / 11:55 am

Here’s what leading Lebanese Christian politicians are saying about Donald Trump’s reelection.

10 things to know about the Catholic Church in Lebanon

Oct 26, 2024 / 08:00 am

In 1989, Pope John Paul II issued an apostolic letter warning that “the disappearance of Lebanon would be one of the world’s greatest sorrows.”

Catholic schools in Lebanon stand resilient amid war

Oct 14, 2024 / 14:20 pm

In Lebanon, Catholic schools stand as beacons of hope as the education system veers on collapse as war escalates.

Body of Armenian patriarch on path to possible sainthood returns to Lebanon

Sep 15, 2024 / 07:00 am

The Armenian Catholic Patriarchate on Sept. 12 held a ceremony in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square to welcome the remains of Patriarch Gregory Peter XV Agagianian.