Momentum, the Weekly Newsletter from the Middle East Council of Churches
In the new issue of the weekly newsletter Momentum issued by the Communication and Public Relations Department of the Middle East Council of Churches, you can find an invitation to attend a round table it organizes under the title "Women and Human Dignity", on Thursday 27 October 2022, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat in Beirut. You can participate in it via the following Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/2jb2y9vy, or live on the MECC Facebook page. As for the weekly message of the MECC Secretary General Dr. Michel Abs, it is entitled “The Fragile Global Peace”, in which he tackled the danger that people and the world are facing in light of the war in Europe.
The issue also presents details about the lecture organized by the Middle East Council of Churches, the Bible Society, and the Faculty of Religious Sciences at the Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Beirut, under the title “Why Our Religious Freedom Matters”, with Rt Revd Philip Mounstephen, Bishop of Truro, and Author of the FCDO’s independent review of persecuted Christians. It was held on Thursday 13 October 2022, at the Saint Joseph University’s campus. In this context, you can find the full lecture of Rt Revd Mounstephen, as well as the speech of the Secretary General Dr. Michel Abs in Arabic.
The issue includes a coverage for the visit of Rt Revd Philip Mounstephen heading a delegation from the Diocese of Truro in the UK, to the offices of the MECC’s General Secretariat in Beirut, on Thursday 13 October 2022. This is in addition to a news about the visit of a delegation from the German Bishops’ Conference to MECC in Beirut, on Monday 17 October 2022.
In the issue also, you can find news about the Association of Theological Institutes in the Middle East (ATIME) which held its General Assembly’s meeting, and the MECC Departments, especially the activities of the Service and Relief – Diakonia Department, in Lebanon and Syria. As well as, you can find the Ecumenical Calendar for October 2022, the MECC Annual Report 2021, Ecumenical reports, the weekly Prayer, videos, and news of the Middle Eastern Churches.
Moreover, the issue presents a report about the activities of the Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (DSPR) at MECC during October 2022, and a socio-economic overview of the Middle East during September 2022 and the latest updates of the Coronavirus in the region.