Praying and weeping quietly, they doggedly awaited a chance to say farewell to the body of Pierre Gemayel, the Christian Cabinet minister whose assassination has paralyzed a fragile nation.

Hundreds of people in Lebanon traveled to a Christian village in the hills above Beirut today to mourn the slain cabinet minister, Pierre Gemayel. Hundreds of thousands may turn tomorrow for his ...

Pierre Gemayel, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of Lebanon’s most prominent Christian family, was gunned down Tuesday in a carefully orchestrated assassination that heightened tensions ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. Pierre Gemayel, Lebanon's industry minister and son of a former president, was shot dead here Tuesday, the first assassination of a major anti-Syrian ...

The sprawling funeral for Pierre Gemayel reinvigorated suporters of the U.S.-backed government in a power struggle with Syrian-backed Hezbollah and its allies threatening to split this small ...

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BEIRUT, LEBANON — The coffin holding Pierre Gemayel passed overhead across the crowd, handed from mourner to mourner as women showered it with rice and flowers on its way into St. Georges Cathedral.

Pierre Gemayel, minister of industry in the U.S.-backed government and heir to the legacy of one of the country’s most powerful and hard-line Christian dynasties, died in a hail of bullets on a ...

The Lebanese anti-Syrian politician Pierre Gemayel has been shot and killed while driving through Beirut. The Cedar Revolution is under attack. Today one of our main believers in a free democratic ...

Michael Young, an expect commentator on Lebanese affairs, says he has little doubt the recent assassination of Christian leader Pierre Gemayel and other killings in Lebanon were carried out by ...

A bodyguard for party leader Pierre Gemayel had been killed. Suddenly the road was blocked, and gunmen began shooting at the bus “from all sides,” Othman recalled. Some passengers had guns ...