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Strengthening the ties
WHO WE ARE / WHY:
Strengthening the ties
Consolidating the bond
Maintaining a Vital Balance
Regaining the Lebanese Citizenship
Joining Forces to overcome demography
 
The phenomenon of the Lebanese spread world-wide represents one of the most significant qualitative developments in the life of the Maronite church as well as in the life of Lebanon at large. Presently, the Maronite population worldwide has multiplied so significantly that it now outnumbers the Lebanese living in the homeland. The traditional emigration wave that represented in the past a source of assistance and sustenance to the Lebanese in Lebanon has now transformed into aggravating bleeding with serious repercussions on the Lebanese society in general and the Maronites in particular thus augmenting the problems and the typical challenges that the mother Maronite church has come to face on the level of its spiritual responsibilities and pastoral services, as well as in its national role towards its children and their outspread successive generations. Most significant of these severe problems that demand appropriate and urgent solutions is the issue of safeguarding and consolidating intercommunicative bonds between the Lebanese, definitely including the Maronites, and Lebanon—their homeland, and certainly strengthening the ties with the Maronite  Patriarchate being the principal spiritual reference for the Maronites wherever they are on the bases that the Maronite church is one in its entity and branched out worldwide.
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