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After last August's explosion in Lebanon, hundreds of thousands of Christians are trying to flee Lebanon, creating concerns for the future of the Church there.
After last August's explosion in Lebanon, hundreds of thousands of Christians are trying to flee Lebanon, creating concerns for the future of the Church there.
Father Jad Chlouk, parish priest of Saint George's Maronite Cathedral in Beirut, told the Catholic charity Help to the Church in Need (ACN) in an interview with the press that Christians felt alienated from their homeland.
The Lebanese media estimated that around 380,000 applications for immigration were made following the blast. Father Chlouk emphasized how Christian numbers have plummeted in the Middle East.
Before 2003, Iraq had 1.5 million Christians, but now there might be less than 150,000. In Syria, Christians in mid-2017 were reported to be below 500,000, down from 1.25 million before the start of the civil war in 2011.
Most of the 380,000 immigration requests in Lebanon were for EU countries or North American via there embassies mostly made by Christians who felt like outsiders in their country, according to Father Jad Chlouk.
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