National Holidays in Lebanon in 2019
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: New Year's Day
- New Year's Day is a public holiday in all countries that observe the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel
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: Armenian Orthodox Christmas Day
- The Armenian Church celebrates Christmas on January 6th. It also celebrates Epiphany on the same day
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: St. Maroun Day
- St. Maroun is considered the Father of the Maronite Church
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: Rafik Hariri Memorial Day
- A businessman and Prime Minister of Lebanon assassinated on 14 February 2005
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: Feast of the Annunciation
- This day celebrates the visit of the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to announce to her that she would become the mother of Jesus
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: Good Friday (Western Church)
- Good Friday occurs on the Friday before Easter. The day commemorates the Crucifixion of Jesus.
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: Easter Sunday
- On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Jesus Christ after his crucifixion
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: Good Friday (Eastern Church)
- Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
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: Orthodox Easter Day
- Easter is the most significant religious holiday for the world's roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians. In the bible, it is the day when Mary Magdalene found that an empty tomb in the cave in which Jesus has been placed after his crucifixion.
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: Labour Day
- This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
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: National Holiday
- National holiday for the funeral of the former Maronite patriarch, Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir
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: Resistance and Liberation Day
- Resistance and Liberation Day Marks Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon on May 25th 2000.
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: Eid Al-Fitr
- The festival of Eid al-Fitr, the Festival of Fast breaking, marks the end of Ramadan
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: Eid Al Adha
- Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice is the most important feast in the Muslim calendar. It celebrates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ishmael in submission to Allah's command, before he was stopped by Allah.
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: Assumption Day
- The Feast of the Assumption is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ
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: Hijri New Year
- Marks Islamic New Year and the Prophet's journey from Mecca to Medina in 622AD.
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: Ashoura
- Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the climax of the Mourning of Muharram
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: Birthday of Prophet Muhammed
- Celebrated by Muslims on the twelfth day of the month of Rabiulawal, the third month of the Muslim calendar
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: Independence Day
- On this day in 1943, Lebanon’s leaders were released from detention by French occupation forces
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: Christmas Day
- Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
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