Patriarch al Rahi issues a warning to lawyers who encourage couples to change their confession for divorce reasons

Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rahi condemned, during the inauguration of the legal year 2013-2014, lawyers who help Catholic couple to divorce through changing their religion or confession.  Rahi stated that lawyers are forbidden from facilitating divorce through suggesting changing confession or religion and threatened these from being forbidden from practicing in religious courts.  Rahi also called on all churches to stop committing this "sin" for money.
Al Rahi said that such court rulings are dangerous, not only in terms of breaking a legal contract, but also in terms of challenging the divine will and destroying the "sanctity of the family".  According to Rahi, this is harmful to both parents and their children and is considered as a sin against god.  He also threatened that each lawyer who contributes to this will be permanently disallowed from practicing in Maronite religious courts.
Source: The Daily Star 23 December 2013