Lebanon Religions

The present Lebanese Constitution officially acknowledges 18 religious groups (see below). These have the right to handle family law according to their own courts and traditions, and they are the basic players in Lebanon's complex sectarian politics.

Alawite Armenian Catholic Armenian Orthodox Assyrian Church of the East Chaldean Catholic Copts Druze Melkite Catholic Eastern Orthodox Isma'ili Jewish Latin Catholic Maronite Protestant Sunni Shia Syriac Catholic Syriac Orthodox