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Bechouat (Lebanon) - "She healed Christians and Muslims and her miracles have given life in the region." She is Our Lady of Bechouat and her sanctuary, a model in multiconfessionel Lebanon seeking to develop religious tourism.
Monasteries, churches and shrines abound in a country that remains a bastion of Christianity in the Arab world, although the Muslims have become the majority. "Formerly, in the Bekaa, tourism stopped at Baalbeck. Our village was forgotten", says Marie Keyrouz, who runs a souvenir shop in Bechouat, a town in the eastern plain of the Bekaa which become a place of pilgrimage after several witnesses of "miraculous cures" in 2004.
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