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9 unusual facts about Christianity in Lebanon


Ain Akrine

In the Ottoman time, a group of Christianity was living this village known by Nawous town, where its people were immigrated because of oppression.

Ain Saadeh

Ain Saade is a traditional Christian village located in the picturesque of the mountains of Lebanon overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, with some 10,000 residents and 2,000 voters.

Baskinta

Baskinta is also known for the variety of its fruit especially apples and vineyards.The residents are Christians: 70% Maronites and 30% Greek Orthodox.

Bechamoun

Bchamoun population includes most of the Lebanese religions (Druze, Christians, and Muslims).

Bsharri

During the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990), Bsharri was a bastion of Christian resistance against first the Palestinians and the Syrians.

Christianity in Lebanon

The Armenian Orthodox Church has two catholicos (Sis and Etschmiadzin) and two patriarchs (Constantinople and Jerusalem).

After the recent passing of the archdiocese's late Archbishop Mar Narsai D'Baz, Archbishop Mar Meelis Zaia of Australia and New Zealand temporarily took over the archdiocese, handling all church related issues in the Lebanon.

Rashid Karami

Karami was a strong proponent of increasing political power of Lebanon's Muslim community, which in his time increased to outnumber the Christian population for the first time in Lebanese history, causing major ripples in the social fabric of the country.

Thomas Langmann

His father Claude Berri was Jewish, and his mother Anne-Marie Rassam, who was born in Lebanon, was Lebanese Christian.


George Hourani

George Hourani was born into a prosperous British family of Lebanese Christian extraction in Didsbury, Manchester.

Miniara

A Christian village but of several different denominations with a majority of Greek Orthodox and including Greek Catholic, Maronite Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Baptist and Jehovah's Witnesses.


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