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Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Toronto replaced a vandalized statue of Mary with a replica of the Lebanese shrine Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa on Sept. 11. / Photo credit: Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic ChurchBoston, Mass., Sep 18, 2022 / 09:00 am (CNA).Many parishioners at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Toronto lost family members and friends when a devastating explosion on Aug. 4, 2020, killed hundreds and injured thousands in Beirut, Lebanon s capital.A large number of Maronite Catholics are of Lebanese descent, and some parishioners still consider Lebanon, as well as Canada, their home.But the suffering intensified at Our Lady of Lebanon when just a few weeks after the blast, on Aug. 30, 2020, the church s statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary was beheaded. To add to the vandalism, there was no chance of repairing the statue since the statue s head was also stolen."It was like continuing the trauma that happened in Beirut," Laure Abo
In the streets of Beirut, the once-welcoming open glass doors of the city’s commercial banks are now mostly shut and are fortified with intimidating prison-like iron bars.
Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of Maronite Catholics, commemorated the second anniversary of a deadly blast that left 224 dead, 7,000 injured and 300,000 homeless and no one yet held accountable.
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