Today native Christians in the Levant are the envoys of a forgotten world, bearing the fierce and hunted spirit of the early church.

10/12/2015 · Christianity began as a religion of the Levant. Christian holy sites still dot its landscape, and it was in one of its cities that the believers were first called Christians. Since ancient times, early Christian sects, Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, and more recently Evangelical communities have provided part of the foundation of the Near East's ...

27/04/2015 · The Levantine religion of the time of early Christianity didn’t influence anything at all, but Levantine religions contemporary to Judaism are important to understand the Old Testament and their mark is heavily planted there, as can be seen with the many references to the multiple Baals worshipped at the time of the Israelite kings like Jeroboam and Josiah.

Until the beginning of the 20th century , Levantine Christians didn't even marry outside their Christian sect. Nowadays, it's a different history, in a typical extended Lebanese Christian family you'll find Maronites, Orthodox, Melkites, Armenians etc. Levantine Christians now tend to identify way less with their denomination and have a much more united Christian identity now, since we …

18/05/2021 · As Levantine Greeks, we must stay out of this conflict as no side will help us maintain our ancestral traditions and heritage. As Christians, we should always speak up about discrimination and unfairness, but the time has come to look out for ourselves. Arabism did not save us; Zionism will not either.