When I recently visited Lebanon with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), I expected to find a suffering Church. Instead, I encountered a vibrant Christian community full of faith, hope and love.

At the height of the latest war last autumn, one in four people in Lebanon was displaced. The Christian population has been caught in the crossfire of a conflict between Hezbollah and Israel in which they have nothing to gain, and everything to lose. Many of their homes have been turned to rubble, with churches damaged, agricultural land destroyed and livelihoods lost.