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World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay continued his visit in Lebanon on 21 March, focusing on meeting with heads of churches to pray and work together. 

As World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay began a visit to Lebanon on 20 March, his agenda included a private meeting with His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Holy See of Cilicia.

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay will visit Lebanon from 19-22 March, to commemorate the 50th jubilee of the Middle East Council of Churches and meet with all WCC member churches from Lebanon and Syria. 

Auf einer brückenbauenden Reise zu den Mitgliedskirchen im Libanon besuchte eine Delegation des Ökumenischen Rats der Kirchen (ÖRK) am 7. Juli Beirut und traf sich dort mit Kirchenleitenden sowie dem Kirchenrat des Nahen Ostens, um eine Botschaft für die anstehende 11. ÖRK-Vollversammlung, die vom 31. August bis zum 8. September in Karlsruhe stattfinden wird, zu hören und mitzunehmen.

In a bridge-building visit to member churches in Lebanon, a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation visited Beirut on 7 July, meeting with church leaders as well as the Middle East Council of Churches to hear and carry a message for the upcoming WCC 11th Assembly, to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 31 August-8 September.

Der Generalsekretär des Rates der Kirchen im Nahen Osten Dr. Michel Abs empfing den geschäftsführenden Generalsekretär des Ökumenischen Rats der Kirchen (ÖRK) P. Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca am 14. Dezember im Generalsekretariat des Rates der Kirchen im Nahen Osten in Beirut. Sauca wurde außerdem von H.E. P. Dr. Habib Badr, Präsident der “National Evangelical Union in Lebanon” und Präsident des “Council for the Evangelical Family”, sowie den MitarbeiterInnen des Generalsekretariats in Beirut willkommen geheißen.

Am 15. Dezember hat Priester Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca, der geschäftsführende Generalsekretär des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) Seiner Seligkeit Johannes X, Patriarch von Antiochien und dem gesamten Morgenland, in dessen Residenz in Balamand, Libanon, einen Besuch abgestattet.  

Middle East Council of Churches secretary general Dr Michel Abs welcomed World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca on 14 December at the headquarters of the Middle East Council of Churches General Secretariat in Beirut. The president of the National Evangelical Union in Lebanon and president of the Council for the Evangelical Family, H.E. Rev. Dr Habib Badr, as well the General Secretariat team in Beirut, also received Sauca.

On 15 December, Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches paid a visit to His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of the Antioch and All the East at the patriarchal residence in Balamand, Lebanon.  

Der Rat der Kirchen im Mittleren Osten mit Sitz in Beirut, Libanon hat die gemeinsame Arbeitsgruppe für die Gebetswoche für die Einheit der Christen einberufen. Der ÖRK und der Vatikan haben diese Materialien jetzt in mehreren Sprachen veröffentlicht.

The Middle East Council of Churches, based in Beirut, Lebanon, has been the convener for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2022 drafting group. The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Vatican have now published the material in several languages.

Damaris, a Nigerian woman, described her experience of 2020: “We’ve gone through hell.”

Damaris and her sisters were kidnapped in March 2020 and threatened with death as their kidnappers demanded money. Her father had to sell everything and beg on the streets to meet their demands. “We are just a common people in Nigeria,” she said. “We don’t know what we did.”

A webinar hosted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 26 November will explore “Conflict Zones and Covid-19: A call to compassion.” Speakers from Cameroon, Nigeria, South Sudan, Lebanon, Belarus and Colombia will offer their insights on how conflict exacerbates the conditions for contracting and treating COVID-19 among civilians caught in the crossfire, especially women.

In a 21 September letter, World Council of Churches interim general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca congratulated Dr Michel Abs on being elected as the next secretary general of the Middle East Council of Churches.