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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. 

En una visita de vinculación a la iglesias miembros en Líbano, una delegación del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) visitó Beirut el 7 de julio, donde se reunió con líderes de la iglesia y con el Consejo de Iglesias de Oriente Medio (CIOM) para escuchar y llevar un mensaje a la 11.ª Asamblea del CMI que se celebrará en Karlsruhe, Alemania, del 31 de agosto al 8 de septiembre.

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.

Una “consulta religiosa sobre la cohesión social en Iraq”, que tuvo lugar del 13 al 15 de diciembre en Beirut, emitió un comunicado final, fruto de una amplia participación interreligiosa que contó, entre otros, con dirigentes religiosos y étnicos de todos los sectores iraquíes, quienes trabajaron juntos en favor de la paz en Iraq y en Oriente Medio.

El Dr. Michel Abs, secretario general del Consejo de Iglesias del Oriente Medio, dio la bienvenida al Rev. Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca, secretario general en funciones del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), el 14 de diciembre a la Secretaría General del Consejo de Iglesias del Oriente Medio con sede en Beirut. S.E. el Rev. Dr. Habib Badr, presidente de la Unión Nacional Evangélica del Líbano y presidente del Consejo para la Familia Evangélica, así como el equipo de dicha secretaria también lo recibieron.

El 15 de diciembre, el Rev. Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca, secretario general en funciones del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), visitó a su beatitud Juan X, patriarca de Antioquía y todo Oriente en la residencia patriarcal de Balamand (Líbano).

A “Religious Consultation on Social Cohesion in Iraq,” held 13-15 in Beirut, released a final communiqué, the fruit of wide interreligious participation that included religious and ethnic leaders of all Iraqi components working together for peace in Iraq and the Middle East.

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.

Una consulta interreligiosa celebrada del 12 al 16 de diciembre en Beirut (Líbano) brindó la oportunidad a participantes de diversas tradiciones de compartir sus visiones para la cohesión social e interreligiosa en Iraq, a partir del contexto actual y vislumbrando el camino a seguir.

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.  

An interfaith consultation held 12-16 December in Beirut, Lebanon, offered the chance for participants from different traditions to share their vision for social and religious cohesion in Iraq, assessing the current context and envisioning the way forward.

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.

The fatal blast in Beirut last month became yet another blow to an already plagued country. In recent months, a financial crisis with a free-falling currency and rising unemployment has further undermined the Lebanese economy. Add to that one million Syrian refugees and the COVID-19 pandemic, and the contours of a fragile nation facing monumental challenges emerge.

In a joint statement, the World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance, and Middle East Council of Churches appealed to address the most urgent needs in the wake of the catastrophic explosion that ripped through the heart of Beirut on 4 August.

En una declaración conjunta, el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, ACT Alianza y el Consejo de Iglesias del Oriente Medio (MECC) hacen un llamado a atender las necesidades más urgentes tras la catastrófica explosión que desgarró el corazón de Beirut, el 4 de agosto.