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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. 

Dans le cadre du rapprochement avec les Églises membres au Liban, une délégation du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) s'est rendue à Beyrouth, le 7 juillet. Elle y a rencontré des responsables d’églises ainsi que le Conseil des Églises du Moyen-Orient, dans le but d'entendre et de transmettre un message en vue de la 11^e Assemblée du COE, qui se tiendra à Karlsruhe (Allemagne), du 31 août au 8 septembre.

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.

Le secrétaire général du Conseil des Églises du Moyen-Orient, le professeur Dr Michel Abs, a accueilli le secrétaire général par intérim du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE), le père prof. Ioan Sauca, le 14 décembre au siège du Secrétariat général du Conseil des Églises du Moyen-Orient à Beyrouth. Le président de l'Union évangélique nationale au Liban et président du Conseil pour la famille évangélique, S.E. le Révérend Dr Habib Badr, ainsi que l'équipe du Secrétariat général à Beyrouth, ont également reçu le père Sauca.

Le 15 décembre, le père Ioan Sauca, secrétaire général par intérim du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) a rendu visite à Sa Béatitude Jean X, patriarche de l'Église orthodoxe grecque d’Antioche et de tout l’Orient, à sa résidence de Balamand, au Liban.  

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.  

Le Conseil des Églises du Moyen-Orient, basé à Beyrouth, au Liban, a organisé le groupe de rédaction de la Semaine de prière pour l’unité des chrétiens 2022. Le COE et le Vatican ont maintenant publié le matériel en plusieurs langues.

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.