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US Maronite bishop: ‘I’ve never seen Lebanon like this before’

June 27, 2022

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CWN Editor's Note: Maronite Bishop Abdallah Elias Zaidan of Los Angeles discussed the deepening economic crisis in Lebanon. His eparchy is sponsoring 450 families per month in a nation whose poverty rate has soared to 90%.

The Maronite Catholic Church (CNEWA profile), an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See, is based in Lebanon.

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