Points of Prayer

  • Pray for those who are doing the work of spreading the Gospel. That they would be encouraged and strengthened, and not grow weary. That they would see the fruit of their work and reap multitudes in miraculous ways.

  • Pray for leadership and discipleship that would help the Church grow through creative ways to accessing communities.

  • Lebanon has the second highest Christian population (over 30%) in the Middle East, pray for the believers living in Lebanon that they would be given a boldness and desire to share the Good News.

  • Pray for people living in the Baca valley referenced in Psalm 84:6, that there would again be springs of LIVING water and for new works that are happening there.

  • Pray for peace among the people groups of Lebanon and for disciple making movements among new believers

Romans 1:16 in Modern Standard Arabic (an unspoken language)

رِسَالَةُ بُولُسَ ٱلرَّسُولِ إِلَى أَهْلِ رُومِيَةَ١:١٦
.لاني لست استحي بانجيل المسيح لانه قوة الله للخلاص لكل من يؤمن لليهودي اولا ثم لليوناني

Lebanon

 

Country Facts

Population

5,296,814 (2022 est.)

Ethnic Groups

Phoenecio-Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1%

Many Christian Lebanese do not identify themselves as Arab but rather as descendants of the ancient Canaanites and prefer to be called Phoenicians

Languages

Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian

As a former French-administered country, many schools are taught in French to foster economic opportunity with Francophone nations.

Religions

Muslim 67.8% (31.9% Sunni, 31.2% Shia, smaller percentages of Alawites and Ismailis), Christian 32.4% (Maronite Catholics are the largest Christian group), Druze 4.5%, very small numbers of Jews, Baha'is, Buddhists, and Hindus (2020 est.)

Location

Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria

Refugees & Displaced Peoples

refugees (country of origin): 479,537 (Palestinian refugees) (2020); 814,715 (Syria) (2022)
Displaced People: 7,000 (2020)
stateless persons: undetermined (2016); note - tens of thousands of persons are stateless in Lebanon, including many Palestinian refugees and their descendants, Syrian Kurds denaturalized in Syria in 1962, children born to Lebanese women married to foreign or stateless men; most babies born to Syrian refugees, and Lebanese children whose births are unregistered

The World Factbook 2021. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2021.
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/