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Maintaining a Vital Balance
WHO WE ARE / WHY:
Strengthening the ties
Consolidating the bond
Maintaining a Vital Balance
Regaining the Lebanese Citizenship
Joining Forces to overcome demography
 
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.
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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