Two Lebanese television networks have been banned from showing Jesus, the Spirit of God, a biopic of Jesus Christ by Iranian director Nader Talebzadeh, Press TV reported.
Lebanon's NBN and Al-Manar television channels started airing the Arabic version of the TV series at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.
The same two channels issued statements later saying that it would no longer be broadcast out of respect for other Lebanese religious groups.
Lebanon has over 18 religious groups which include Sunni and Shia Muslims, Christians and Druze.
Christian priests and politicians protested to the program, saying that the topic might endanger national coexistence.
Catholic Maronite Archbishop Bechara el-Rai said that the 17-episode program does not show respect to "Jesus, the church and Christianity."
Information Minister Tarek Mitri said that although he was against censorship, he agreed with the cancellation because of Lebanon's religious diversity.
"There is a special case in Lebanon which is considered a country of dialogue and a country where Christians and Muslims meet," AP quoted Mitri as saying.
Talebzadeh's Jesus, the Spirit of God is a 2008 feature-length production that was subsequently adapted into a TV series.
It has won the Inter-Religious Dialogue award of Italy's 2007 Religion Today Film Festival.
The film was made based on the Qur'an and the Gospel of Barnabas, which conforms to the Islamic interpretation of Christian origins.
Christians believe Jesus was the son of God, who died by crucifixion, was resurrected, and then ascended to heaven.
Muslims, however, believe Jesus was only a prophet who ascended while still alive.
"He is never the son of God, he is a prophet, and also he was not crucified -- someone else was crucified in his place," Talebzadeh said in a CNN interview in 2008.
The director's biopic shows Judas Iscariot being crucified instead of Jesus.