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Maintaining a Vital Balance |
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WHO WE ARE /
WHY: |
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Strengthening the ties
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Consolidating the bond |
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Maintaining a Vital Balance |
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Regaining the Lebanese Citizenship |
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Joining Forces to overcome demography |
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IIn the context of handling the
issue of the Lebanese spread worldwide, the Maronite Convention emphasized the
repercussions of the dispersion that has come to characterize the Maronite
spiritual family thus impoverishing Lebanon and concurrently the Maronite
church, especially that this family in particular is fundamental in the
formation of the Lebanese identity and the consolidation of its social formula
on the basis of coexistence. This dispersion that befell the Maronite family
has implicated serious damages on this exemplary and model formula which in
itself is a message to humanity. The concern for the Lebanese and the Maronites
in the world and the utmost care needed to handle their problems and causes
present an urgency to safeguard the Lebanese formula of coexistence between the
Christians and the Moslems. This matter requires unrelenting concern and the
availability of all the elements and conditions that guarantee and ensure its
promotion for ever and ever. |
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From this perspective of the
national concern, we cannot but give all due attention with utmost seriousness
and care to confront this phenomenon of Maronite dispersion represented in
particular by the obstacles in the way of many Maronites in the countries of
immigration to register their marriages and their children due to the absence
of Lebanese consulates at the minimum level needed; in addition to the
administrative impediments and legal texts whose petrified nature also stand in
the way of registration; besides, difficulties arise from the coercive
affiliation with the local Latin churches that we both revere and respect of
course. Such a phenomenon ultimately leads to the disintegration of affiliation
to the Maronite church and negligence of the Lebanese identity leaving these
Lebanese contented solely with the citizenship of the countries of their
respective residency. Thus, such a matter imperatively harms the core of the
Maronite presence and their major role outlined in Lebanon itself, which means
in turn harming the unique Lebanese formula, the survival of Lebanon, its
development and social interaction. |
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