POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF LEBANESE CHRISTIANS: AMBITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES AND REALITIES
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POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF LEBANESE CHRISTIANS: AMBITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES AND REALITIES
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As Lebanese citizens, Christians remain to be socially active part of country population. Their political participation appears so in traditional plane as a part of extra-systemic protest movements. An external influence on Christian communities is diverse and it continues to be high, acting as disintegrating factor which hinder the Christians of Lebanon to exercise effective steps to overcome the crisis in the country, and in addition, to take steps to preserve Christianity in the Middle East in general in view of obvious current threats.
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Middle Eastern Christians, Lebanon, political participation, religious communities, political factions of Lebanon, the protest movement
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01.07.2016
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