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	Maronite Church
		Christian community, centred to Lebanon, and affiliated to the Roman Catholic Church as part of the Eastern Rite.
		According to the Lebanese constitution, the president of the country shall be a Maronite Christian.
		The liturgy was developed inside the Maronite Church prior to the affiliation to Rome in the 12th century, but Roman Catholic elements have been introduced.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/maronite.htm (626 words)

	Maronite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Maronites (Marunoye ܐܶܝܢܘܪܡ in Syriac, Mâruniyya مارونية in Arabic) are members of an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope of the Roman Church.
		According to modern Maronites, their forebears remained orthodox in the 5th and 6th centuries despite the strength of the Monophysite and Nestorian heresies in that region.
		The head of the Maronite Church is the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, who is elected by the bishops of the Maronite church and now resides in Bkirki, north of Beirut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maronite_Christians (1275 words)

	Maronite Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Christian community, centred to Lebanon, and affiliated to the Roman Catholic Church as part of the Eastern Rite.
		According to the Lebanese constitution, the president of the country shall be a Maronite Christian.
		The liturgy was developed inside the Maronite Church prior to the affiliation to Rome in the 12th century, but Roman Catholic elements have been introduced.
	i-cias.com /e.o/maronite.htm (637 words)

	Symposium: The Muslim Persecution of Christians
		Christians are persecuted also because they are secularists and oppose the return of the shariah.
		The Jihadists of the 21th century -in the absence of a historical reformation- are using those references from the texts to perpetuate the state of mind of the original conquests and Caliphate in the present context of international relations.
		In Russia, the war in Chechnya is often portrayed by officials as a war of Christianity against Islam, or Wahhabism and Russia's brutal conduct of that war is often seen by Muslims as oppression by Christians.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=10242 (6528 words)

	Phoenicia: The Maronites and Lebanon, A Brief History
		The Maronites were loyal supporters of the decrees of the Council in the region, and as a result, the opponents of Chalcedon showed themselves bitter enemies of the Maronites and began to brutally persecuted them.
		The sojourn of the Maronite Patriarchs in the district of Jbeil lasted for 502 years, that is to say, from 938 to 1440 A.D. and these were years of constant turmoil as the plains and mountains Lebanon became a battle field for the Crusaders and the army of Islam.
		The Maronites were also described by Jaques de Vitry in his 'Historia Hierosolymitana' of the twelfth century 'men armed with bows and arrows, and skilful in battle, inhabit the mountains in considerable numbers, in the province of Phoenicia, not far from the town of Byblos.
	phoenicia.org /maronites.html (9496 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maronites
		Maronite nation and Church; after which their history will be studied, with a special examination of the much discussed problem of the origin of the Church and the nation and their unvarying orthodoxy.
		Maronites are under the protection of France, but in their case the protectorate is combined with more cordial relations dating from the connection between this people and the
		Maronites, or else these 40,000 were only a very small part of the nation who had, through ignorance, allowed themselves to be led astray by the Monothelite propaganda of a bishop named Thomas of Kfar-tas.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09683c.htm (5406 words)

	Shattered Christian Minorities in the Middle East
		Christians and Jews were enjoined to affix wooden images of devils to their houses, level their graves even with the ground, wear outer garments of yellow color, and ride only on mules and asses with wooden saddles marked by two pomegranates-like balls on the cantle.
		Christians and Muslims were finally content with the election of the army commander Fouad Shihab as the new president, and, consequently, the US withdrew from Lebanon.
		Lebanese Christians were always keenly mindful of past atrocities inflicted on their brethren in the Middle East at the hands of the Muslims- namely the demise of Armenians in Turkey and the persecution of Coptic Christians in Sudan and Egypt.
	phoenicia.org /christiansmea.html (14760 words)

	Christians in the Middle East, Coptic, Maronite - The Peace FAQ
		The objectives of such oppression is to reduce the influence of the Christian communities, and in certain cases, to reduce it physically.
		In Sudan, the stated objective of the ruling regime is to Arabise and Islamize the African Christian and Animist population of the south.
		Religious persecution of Christians in the Middle East has reached extreme forms of human degradation: In Sudan, abundant reports by international human rights organizations have documented the enslavement by the northern fundamentalist forces of southern African Christians.
	peace.heebz.com /christians.html (2026 words)

	Maronite Outreach in Lebanon
		Today, Maronite Outreach is harnessing the potential of Christians of Lebanese heritage in the diaspora and sending a message of hope, solidarity, and charity to the Christians in Lebanon.
		Unfortunately, the survival of the Christian community in Lebanon as an active and equal participant in the life of the nation is once again under attack.
		Among the many dangers facing the Christians in Lebanon are the impoverishment of a significant portion of the population, the lack of investment in productive areas, emigration of the educated and the youth to the West, and the inability of several hundred thousand families to return to their original areas of residence.
	www.maroniteoutreach.org /pages/about_us.html (512 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Christian Minorities in Lebanon by Fouad Abi-esber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In the spring of 1976, the Maronite summit was renamed the Kafur summit.
		The higher echelon of the professional officer corps was predominantly Christian, and the army was seen as one that was predominantly Christian.
		This was due to the atrocities committed by the Christian militia and by the atrocities committed on Christians by Muslims and Palestinians.
	www.maronite.org.au /maronsyd/abiesber.html (11787 words)

	Lost in America - Christianity Today Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Identifying and counting Arab Christians (that is, Christians whose ethinic and cultural origins lie in what we loosely call "the Arab world") is difficult.
		Instead, because the Maronite Church is in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, the immigrants joined Catholic congregations.
		Christians were not allowed to evangelize, and their numbers dropped through conversion, attrition, and sporadic persecution.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2004/004/2.38.html (2165 words)

	Christians Standing with Israel
		In May, we wrote a piece examining two ACLU lawsuits that targeted the placement of Christian crosses at war memorials in the Mojave Desert (a World War I memorial) and the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego.
		Still, Southern California was rather generous to its ACLU attorneys, as a Federal court granted their motion, and the cross at the Mojave memorial was subsequently covered with a tarp.
		However, a second group of students at the school--all muslims--are allowed to gather in one of the school's classrooms for the purpose of organized prayer.
	christiansstandingwithisrael.blogspot.com (2236 words)

	Elie Hobeika killer file
		Meanwhile, an alliance is formed between the Lebanese Christians and Israel soon after the start of the war, with the Israelis supplying significant aid, including arms, uniforms and training.
		Eventually a Lebanese Christian Maronite and alleged Syrian agent is identified as the assassin.
		Parliamentary seats are divided equally between Christians and Muslims and the Shi'ite speaker becomes part of the executive, along with the Maronite president and Sunni prime minister.
	www.moreorless.au.com /killers/hobeika.html (5370 words)

	Lebanese Maronite leader preaches reconciliation
		Survivors among the traditional Maronite leadership, feudal and ruthless, are in exile in Paris, while big slices of the Maronite middle classes are dispersed around the world.
		Moving with suppleness between politics and theology, the Patriarch explained that the future of Christians in the Middle East -- their numbers sharply down in virtually all countries with the partial excep tions of Syria and Egypt -- is intimately linked to the position of Christians in Lebanon.
		The pope called for reconciliation between Christian and Muslim, for the Vatican-allied Maronites to resist the lure of emigration, and for the restoration of Lebanese sovereignty.
	texnews.com /religion97/maron122797.html (885 words)

	Independent News
		It is as if a Christian, urging his followers to recite the Lord's Prayer, felt it necessary to read the whole prayer in case they didn't remember it.
		The translation, as it stands, suggests an almost Christian view of what the hijackers might have felt – asking to be forgiven their sins, explaining that fear of death is natural, that "a believer is always plagued with problems''.
		In the past, CIA translators have turned out to be Lebanese Maronite Christians whose understanding of Islam and its prayers may have led to serious textual errors.
	www.englishfirst.org /13166/terrornotetransaltion1001.htm (938 words)

	Lebanese Christians fear ethnic cleansing in security zone
		Maronite participation in the funeral of Hashem, who
		A Christian couple was murdered and a Maronite nun was
		However, according to Phares, the Christians are not
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/3518/lebanon020300.html (560 words)

	World Maronite Union
		Its prime mandate is to lobby and defend Lebanon's 6000 years of history and civilization, its unique identity in 10452 square kilometers, its basic human rights and dignity as a sovereign, independent, free democracy
		WMU press release "Lebanese Maronite League election" Feb 21, 2007 (Arabic)
		WMU press release " Lebanese must unite against terror" Jan 26, 2007 (Arabic)
	www.maroniteunion.org (78 words)

	Lebanese Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		War of certain areas of Lebanon lasting for 16 years and 7 months, beginning on April 13, 1975 and ending on October 13, 1990, but with pauses.
		The war was fought along both religious as well as political borders, where especially the Maronite Christians, Shi'i Muslims, the Druze, PLO, the Israeli as well as the Syrian army were the main contenders.
		Lebanese Forces, led by Bashir Gemayel, like Chamoun also a Maronite Christian, yet his group allied with the PLO.
	i-cias.com /e.o/leb_civ_war.htm (1057 words)

	Religion
		Many Lebanese-Americans are Maronite Christians who have brought Maronite religion to America.
		Lebanon has seventeen known religions; Maronite is the most popular to Lebanese-Americans.
		Lebanese people also believe that a mountain in the town of Zgarta near Ehden is where the Garden of Eden was.
	pages.cthome.net /yshua/religion.html (144 words)

	Adherents.com
		More than 25% of world's Christians are charismatic or Pentecostal a Pentecostal historian said...
		The central SACRAMENT of the CULT is the use of mescaline from the peyote cactus as an hallucinogenic drug.
		Among the Mescalero Apache rival shamans used peyote in their 'witching' practices, but there was no cultic use of the plant.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_511.html (2826 words)

	BeitMery.com - Encyclopedia
		- President (Maronite Christian) elected by the National Assembly
		National Assembly constituted of 128 seats (64 Christians, 64 Muslims) elected by the people
		- Christians (Maronite, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestants...) 39 %
	www.beitmery.com /html/modules/icontent/index.php?page=17 (298 words)

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