The summit is part of a "road map" given to them by Pope Francis, according to Maronite patriarch Cardinal Béchara Rai.

According to Cardinal Rai, the leaders were offered a series of measures making up the road map during their day of prayer with the Pope on 1 July.

The day of prayer was held as Lebanon endures economic and political turmoil.

The proposals have already led the cardinal, who is head of the Maronite Church and Patriarch of Antioch, to hold meetings with the country's President Michel Aoun and its apostolic nuncio, Maltese Archbishop Joseph Spiteri.

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Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican's equivalent of a foreign minister, said June 25 that he believes that the Holy See can make a positive contribution to Lebanon's economic and political crisis.

"The Holy See is deeply concerned about the collapse of the country economically, financially, socially, which would particularly affect the Christian community and the identity of Lebanon," Gallagher told journalists at a Vatican press conference.

He said that a weakening of the Christian presence due to emigration "risks destroying the internal equilibrium and the reality of Lebanon itself, further putting the Christian presence in the Middle East at risk."

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