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Milestones from the foundation's projects, each taken from a signed agreement, a final report, or a public event.

  • Icon of the Virgin of Sorrow, shown on the exhibition invitation.
    Exhibition24 June 2025

    “Guardians of the Sacred” opens at the USEK Museum

    Ten restored icons from the Émile Hannouche Collection, dated 1705 to 1856, go on display under the patronage of H.E. Mr. Iassen Tomov, Ambassador of Bulgaria to Lebanon. The restoration was carried out in Kaslik by Nezabravka Parvanova of Bulgaria's National Museum of History, assisted by Pascale El Corm.

  • A leather-bound manuscript resting in a made-to-measure acid-free box.
    ManuscriptsSeptember 2024

    Second Aid to the Church in Need phase completed

    Eleven further Catholic manuscripts and early printed books, dated 1735 to 1841, are conserved and digitised in 5,356 images. The first phase, from July 2022 to January 2023, covered 16 manuscripts copied between 1712 and 1859, in 7,010 images, now housed in acid-free boxes.

  • A carved stone relief from the Émile Hannouche Museum.
    Museum5 August 2022

    LHF entrusted with the Émile Hannouche Museum

    A ten-year memorandum with the Lebanese Maronite Order gives the foundation management of the museum and its collection in Chtoura, Bekaa, to be kept open to everyone free of charge.