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Article: Removing the thorns around my heart: being mistaken for a Muslim started Wadiaa Khoury, a Lebanese Christian, on a journey towards her fellow--country people.(Turning Point)
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- For A Change
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- February 1, 2004
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I WAS BORN and brought up in Zahle, one of the major Christian cities of Lebanon, where the sound of church bells and chanting resonates every day. The city contains enough churches to celebrate almost every saint's day.
From my early childhood I came to understand that the city's inhabitants included not only Greek Catholics, like my family, but also Orthodox Christians, Maronites, Syriacs, Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans. As we were told in many ways, all of these groups came to the city after being persecuted by Islamic regimes in neighbouring countries. This collective memory may lie behind the harmony between the city's different Christian groups. Despite ...