The State Department's 2023 report on Lebanon describes the confessional system built on the 1943 National Pact and reinforced by the 1989 Taif Agreement, under which the cabinet nominates and pays the salaries of the Sunni and Shia muftis and the Druze Sheikh al-Aql, and Muslim and Druze clerical judges draw state salaries and run publicly funded religious colleges, while the government does not nominate Christian patriarchs and pays no Christian clergy salaries.
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Citation
AuthorUnited States Department of State, Office of International Religious Freedom
PublisherUS Department of State
URLhttps://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/lebanon/
Source TypeGovernment report
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The United States' own State Department annual country report on religious freedom, the strongest available form for a fact about a country's state funding of religious institutions, hence the top tier. Connections
Associated With
This source names Lebanon directly: "The State Department's 2023 report on Lebanon describes the confessional system built on the 1943 National Pact and reinforced by the 1989 Taif Agreement, under which the cabinet nominates and pays..."
Source US Department of State, 2023 Report on International Religious Freedom: LebanonUnited States Department of State, Office of International Religious Freedom
Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)
This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Religions, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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