A Video Message from the MECC Secretary General Dr. Michel Abs on the Occasion of New Year and the International Day of Peace, on Voice of Van Radio

The “Initiatives” Program broadcasted on Voice of Van Radio, prepared and presented by the journalist Lea Adel Maamary, presents a special episode, which you can watch it in the video, on the occasion of Christmas, New Year and the International Day of Peace celebrated on the 1st of January every year.

The episode includes many messages and greetings in Arabic from Bethlehem, the South of Lebanon which suffers from war, and various Lebanese regions, addressed by Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac, Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, His Eminence Metropolitan Elias Kfoury, Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Tyre, Sidon and Dependencies, His Eminence Archbishop Youssef Soueif, Archbishop of the Maronite Diocese of Tripoli, Judge Dr. Mouhammad Al Noukari, and Dr. Michel Abs, the Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches.

This is in addition to interventions in Arabic from the artist Christiane Najjar, Father Tony Ghanem Al Antouni, Father Abdo Abou Kasem, Head of the Lebanese Catholic Media Center, Father Agapios Naous, Parish Priest of the Saint Elias Church for the Greek Orthodox in Mtayleb - Lebanon, Father George Al Amil, Deputy Minister of Our Lady Parish in Ain Ebel, Lebanon, and Dr. Rima Younes, President of the Lebanese Charitable Educational and Cultural Renewal Association.