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The United States is the second largest home of Druze communities outside the Middle East after Venezuela (60,000). [5] According to some estimates there are about 30,000 [6] to 50,000 [7] Druzes in the United States, with the largest concentration in Southern California. [8] Most Druze immigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon and Syria. [9]
According to the United States census, there were at least 3.5 million Arabs living in the United States in the year 2000, with around 40% of them originating from Lebanon. [139] The majority of them are members of the Christian faith, making up 63% of the overall Arab American population. [139] [140]
Predominantly Christianity (mostly ... This is a list of notable individuals born in the United States of Lebanese ancestry and/or people of Lebanese and American ...
Melkite Christianity in Lebanon is the third-largest Christian denomination, representing 5% of the Lebanese population. [ 33 ] The Melkite Catholics emerged as a distinct group from 1724 when they split from the Greek Orthodox Church over a disputed election of the Patriarch of Antioch.
Christianity (mainly Maronite, Greek Orthodox, ... A 2016 television ad tried to entice Lebanese in the United States to move to Lebanon to help improve the standard ...
AIN EBEL, Lebanon — The church bells still ring in Ain Ebel, but there’s hardly anyone left to hear them.. The small Christian village of about 1,500 is only a few miles from Lebanon’s ...
At Lebanon's border with Israel, residents of a Christian village are hoping war can be avoided even as they prepare for the possibility of worsening hostilities between the Lebanese Shi'ite group ...
[1] [2] [3] Today, most Middle Eastern people in the United States are Christians, [4] and the majority of Arabs living outside the Arab World are Arab Christians. Push factors motivating Christians to emigrate include religious discrimination, persecution, and cleansing. Pull factors include prospects of upward mobility as well as joining ...