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Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, the miracle where Jesus Christ, on a mountaintop, shined with light before his disciples. The sunset’s yellow light coming through the cedar branches bathed the leader of Lebanon’s Maronite Church, Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, as he stood at a wooden podium and delivered a sermon. For Lebanon’s Christians, the cedars are sacred, these tough evergreen trees that survive the mountain’...

For Lebanon’s Christians, the cedars are sacred, these tough evergreen trees that survive the mountain’s harsh snowy winters.

In the streets of Beirut, Lebanon, November 5, 2020. (Photo by JOSEPH EID/AFP) Father Hani Tawk's main job is teaching Arab philosophy and political science in Beirut. But the 46-year-old Maronite priest, who is married and has four children, now spends five days each week preparing meals for families who were displaced last August from an explosion that ripped through the port of Lebanon's capital. Father Tawk and his small team of volunteers cook up some 600 meals each day for those who survived the blast. The Beirut disaster killed 200 people, injured more than 6,500 and left 300,000 othe...