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And more recently, in 2018 the CIA World Factbook estimated that Christians constituted 33.7% [18] of Lebanon's population. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The Maronite Church , an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Catholic Church , is the largest and politically most active and influential denomination of Lebanon's Christians.
According to the CIA World Factbook, [17] in 2021, the Christian population in Lebanon was estimated at 44%. In 2012 a more detailed breakdown of the size of each Christian sect in Lebanon was made: Maronite Christians are the largest of the Christian groups who in total account for about 32.4% of the total population of Lebanon. [19]
A 2012 study conducted by Statistics Lebanon, a Beirut-based research firm, estimated Lebanon's population to be 54% Muslim (27% Shia; 27% Sunni), 46% Christian (31.5% Maronite, 8% Greek Orthodox, 6.5% other Christian groups) [11] The CIA World Factbook estimates (2020) the following, though this data does not include Lebanon's sizable Syrian ...
According to World Population Review, there were 2.38 billion Christians around the world in 2021. [197] According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, if current trends continue, Christianity will remain the world's largest religion by year 2050.
Rmeich is one of around a dozen or more Christian villages near the border with Israel in predominantly Shi'ite Muslim south Lebanon. During the 2006 war, some 25,000 people from surrounding towns ...
For Lebanon’s Christians, the cedars are sacred, these tough evergreen trees that survive the mountain’s harsh snowy winters. They point out with pride that Lebanon’s cedars are mentioned ...
Lebanese Protestant Christians (Arabic: بروتستانت لبنان) refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of Protestantism in Lebanon. They are a Christian minority in the country. In 2020, studies showed that while 34.28% of the population followed Christianity; in total 1.2% of Lebanon's population were Protestant (approximately ...
Lebanon holds the largest number of Christians in the Arab world proportionally and falls just behind Egypt in absolute numbers. About 350,000-450,000 of Christians in Lebanon are Orthodox and Melkites, while the most dominant group are Maronites with about 1 million population, whose Arab identity is contentiously disputed. [ 290 ]