US Maronite bishop: 'I've never seen Lebanon like this before' (CNS)

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.