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Le Comité consultatif de liaison du COE à Jérusalem s’est réuni pour la première fois à Jérusalem sous la conduite du secrétaire général par intérim du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), le père prof. Ioan Sauca, pour préparer l’avenir.

On 24 November, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas formally received the acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca for a meeting to discuss just peace in Palestine and Israel. 

A thanksgiving service for the work and the life of Theophilos III of Jerusalem was held on 22 November in the Holy Sepulchre Church, commemorating the patriarch’s 17th election enthronement.

Under the leadership of World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, the WCC Jerusalem Liaison Advisory Committee held its first meeting in Jerusalem, during which it mapped future plans. 

H.E. Mor Boutros Kassis, who has been serving the community for the last seven years as a temporary bishop, was installed as archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Aleppo on 15 October.

Three new theological reflections are available to help people prepare and reflect for the World Week of Peace in Palestine and Israel, to be held 15-22 September.

Le secrétaire général par intérim du Conseil œcuménique des Églises, le père Ioan Sauca, a lancé un appel urgent à la fin de la violence à Jérusalem, après que, le 14 août, huit personnes ont été blessées dans une fusillade visant un bus.

World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca urgently called for an end to violence in Jerusalem, after on 14 August eight people were wounded in a shooting attack targeting a bus.

Une délégation du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) s’est rendue à Jérusalem et en Cisjordanie du 14 au 17 juillet. Conduite par le père Ioan Sauca, secrétaire général par intérim du COE, elle a rencontré les patriarches et les responsables des communautés chrétiennes, mais aussi des membres du clergé local et des fidèles.

A World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation led by WCC acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca visited Jerusalem and the West Bank from 14-17 July, meeting with patriarchs and heads of Christian communities as well as local clergy and laity.

After being received by representatives of the churches managing the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem on 15 July, President Joseph Biden was accompanied on a short tour to the site of the birth of Christ, where he was awaited by Patriarch Theophilos III, the Custos Father Patton, and the Armenian Orthodox Patriarch Norahan Manugian, all of whom took Biden on a tour and exchanged discussion with him in the presence of a number of Palestinian officials.