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    Lebanon has many official religions, with the Druze making up 5% of the population. The Druze, concentrated in rural mountain areas east and south of Beirut, refer to themselves as believers in one God. Muslims make up 54.7% of Lebanon's population, with Christians at 40.4%, divided between Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Protestant, and Melkite faiths. Sunnis and Shias each represent 27% of the population. Protestants are the least populous at 1%.

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    Lebanon has many official religions, with the Druze making up 5% of the population. The Druze, concentrated in rural mountain areas east and south of Beirut, refer to themselves as believers in one God. Muslims make up 54.7% of Lebanon's population, with Christians at 40.4%, divided between Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Protestant, and Melkite faiths. Sunnis and Shias each represent 27% of the population. Protestants are the least populous at 1%.

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    Lebanon has many official religions, with the Druze making up 5% of the population. The Druze, concentrated in rural mountain areas east and south of Beirut, refer to themselves as believers in one God. Muslims make up 54.7% of Lebanon's population, with Christians at 40.4%, divided between Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Protestant, and Melkite faiths. Sunnis and Shias each represent 27% of the population. Protestants are the least populous at 1%.

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    Religion In Lebanon

    Lebanon has many religions in there there country including something called druze.

    Druze is a ethnoreligious esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify

    as unitarians.which only takes up 5% of the population in lebanon.The Druze, who refer

    to themselves as al-Muwahhideen, or "believers in one God," are concentrated in the

    rural, mountainous areas east and south of Beirut.Which is also designed as one of the

    five lebanese muslim communities.Its total population is reaching up to 200,000 and

    language being used by druze lebanese arabic.

    There is 54.7% in lebanon that is muslim and for christianity is 40.4% in

    lebanon.The rest is either catholic,greek orthodox,protestant,melkite ,or sunni. Sunni has

    a percentage of 27%,Shia 27%,melkite 5%,greek orthodox 8% ,and 1% of protestant.

    Lebanese can have more religion but the most populous is muslim and least is

    protestant.Also going to lebanese you'll see many ethnic groups in church.

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