Some Christians arm as Mideast perils mount

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t a church in Leba**n's Christian village of Ras Baalbek in the **rthern Bekaa region near the border with Syria. Across the Middle East, Christian communities as old as the religion itself feel their very survival is at stake, threatened by militants of the Islamic State group rampaging across Iraq and Syria. Many Christian villagers are setting up self-defense units to protect themselves against attack. In Qaa and Ras Baalbek, two Christian **rtheastern villages on the border with Syria, many of the thousands of expatriates who used to spend the summer there stayed away this year. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)" border="0" /> (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/christians-arm-mideast-perils-mount-053505095.html)QAA, Leba**n (AP) ? Every day around sunset, dozens of residents of this small Lebanese Christian village on the border carry their automatic rifles and deploy on surrounding hills, taking up positions and laying ambushes in case Muslim extremists from neighboring Syria attack.




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