Religious News:Lebanon drops religious ID requirement

A large percentage of Lebanese are Christian.

Our Randa a member here and a dear online buddie who I hosted with in chat room explained much to me.

I was online with her a few years ago when she suddenly lost
power, as this is quite common I thought it was the electricity supply but she later returned to tell me of a bus which had been blown up carrying early shoppers.
From my understanding and what I saw on the news
this was the act of the oposition.

The history of Christianity goes way back to mid first century the missions of St Paul,
They are the largest percentage of all middle east nations.
They are Forgotten Christians who have suffered much, may this new law be a help to them.
God bless them

Lebanon drops religious ID requirement
A move by Lebanon to modify requirements that all residents must identify themselves by religion is a good start, a human rights group says.

But Beirut still needed to do more to meet its international human rights obligations, such as adopting a civil code that would ensure access to equal treatment under the law in personal matters, no matter what one's religious affiliation, Human Rights Watch said Monday.

The group said Lebanese Interior Minister Ziad Baroud moved last week to allow Lebanese the right to remove any reference to their religion on Civil Registry Records.

"This is a step in the right direction but the government needs to take the next step and ensure that all Lebanese can have access to personal status laws that are not religiously based and provide for equal treatment," said Nadim Houry, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. "Otherwise all Lebanese will continue to be forced to be officially members of specific religions and subject to their laws on key issues like marriage and inheritance."

Copyright 2009 by United Press International.

This news arrived on: 02/16/2009