The recently formed Independent Christian Gathering is meeting regularly to discuss national and international affairs, and despite the fact that the gathering does not have a political affiliation, sources say that factions within it are working to pull it in various directions.

A former minister who is a member of the gathering, which usually meets in the Kesrouan town of Harissa, said it began “with a conviction among a number of Christian political, economic and cultural figures that the current alignment ... is futile and can’t get the country out of the cycle it is in. Thus the political situation had to give birth to a group that is completely independent from all current alliances which are drawing foreign influence into Lebanon.”

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