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Lebanese prelate sees nation as ‘sheep without shepherd’

July 19, 2021

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CWN Editor's Note: Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai—likening Lebanon to a flock without a shepherd because of a continuing crisis that has left the nation without a government—urged his people to seek the intercession of St. Charbel, known as a miracle-worker.

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