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Maronites (Arabic: الموارنة, romanized: Al-Mawārinah; Syriac: ܡܖ̈ܘܢܝܐ, romanized: Marunoye) are a Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group [25] group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant whose members belong to the Maronite Church. The largest concentration has traditionally resided near Mount Lebanon in modern ...
e. The Maronite Church (Arabic: لكنيسة المارونية; Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܡܪܘܢܝܬܐ) is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. [9] The head of the Maronite Church is ...
The cities and communities where most Maronites in Israel reside are Haifa, Jish, Nazareth, Isfiya, Acre, Maker and Jaffa. [8][10] In 2021, there were 3,500 Lebanese in Israel, [11] they are located mainly in Nahariya, Kiryat Shmona, Tiberias, Ma'alot and Haifa. [12] Their main church is in Acre, Israel, and they tend to pray separately from ...
The history of the Jews in Lebanon encompasses the presence of Jews in present-day Lebanon stretching back to biblical times. While Jews have been present in Lebanon since ancient times, [2] their numbers had dwindled during the Muslim era. [3] Through the medieval ages, Jewish people often faced persecution, [4] but retained their religious ...
The Maronite Church's website claims 1,062,000 members were in Lebanon in 1994 which would have made them around 31% of Lebanon's population. [24] Maronite Catholics are the largest Christian group, followed by Greek Orthodox. [25] Percentage growth of the Lebanese Maronite Christians (other sources est.)[26][23][27][28][29][30][31] Year.
The main Druze doctrine states that God is both transcendent and immanent, in which he is above all attributes, but at the same time, he is present. [70] In their desire to maintain a rigid confession of unity, they stripped from God all attributes (tanzīh). In God, there are no attributes distinct from his essence.
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šāloš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles', 'tents' or 'booths')—when all Israelites who were able were expected to make ...
Zeved habat (Hebrew: זֶבֶד הַבָּת - Gift of the Daughter) or Simchat Bat (Hebrew: שמחת בת - Celebration of the Daughter) [2] is the Jewish naming ceremony for newborn girls. [1][3] The details of the celebration varies somewhat by Jewish community and will typically feature the recitation of specific biblical verses and a ...