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Maronite bishops demand peaceful election conditions

May 09, 2022

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CWN Editor's Note: The Lebanese general election will take place May 15.

The Associated Press reported that “more than 70% of the country’s 6 million inhabitants, including 1 million Syrian refugees, now live in poverty as a result of the [economic] crisis, which was described by the World Bank as one the world’s worst since the 1850s.”

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