Jaag Masihi News World 05-08-2022
BEIRUT: The ongoing political uncertainty in Lebanon, a Central Asian country with 33 percent Christian population, worries Christians. On October 31 this year, the term of current President Michael On will end.
Constitutionally, the presidency is reserved for Christians. Christians are worried because the four people who are likely to be elected next to this position are reluctant to intervene in the problems of Christians. Michael Aoun, his son-in-law Gibran Bassil, and Suleiman Franki, a supporter of the terrorist organization Hezbollah, are currently being held as possible.
Also, if there is a situation where no one is elected in October, there is a possibility that the current Prime Minister and Muslim believer Najib Mikati will become the interim president.
The theme of this year's meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican was 'Christians are well'. But the Christians expressed their protest by sharing the pictures of the atrocities committed against the Christians by the terrorist organization on social media. It also contains pictures of murders.
Lebanon is a West Asian country with a long Christian history. Lebanon has many biblical towns. It is also noteworthy that the word Lebanon is used in the Bible about seventy times. Christians played a major role in building the country. Lebanon, once the largest Christian-majority country in the Middle East, is now a minority Christian community.
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