Kareem Chehayeb

Kareem Chehayeb is an author at Religion News Service.

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Turkish drones kill 3 in an attack on a local Christian militia in northeastern Syria, officials say

By Kareem Chehayeb and Bassem Mroue — February 29, 2024
BEIRUT (AP) — The force that was targeted, the local Christian Syriac police known as Sutoro, works under the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.

Lebanon’s Christians feel the heat of climate change in its sacred forest and valley

By Kareem Chehayeb — December 5, 2023
BCHARRE, Lebanon (AP) — The lush Cedars of God Forest, some 2000 meters (6,560 feet) above sea level near the northern town of Bcharre, is part of a landscape cherished by Christians.

Clergy, bags of cash set off new sectarian brawl in Lebanon

By Kareem Chehayeb — August 3, 2022
BEIRUT (AP) — The situation has ramped up discord between two powerful political camps: Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group and the Maronite Church.

Lebanon LGBTQ community suffers setback amid wider clampdown

By Kareem Chehayeb — July 19, 2022
BEIRUT (AP) — In a statement, the Interior Ministry said that LGBTQ-friendly events “violate our society’s customs and traditions, and contradict with the principles of the Abrahamic religions.”
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