MECC Participates in a Press Conference at the Catholic Media Center in Lebanon

Launching of Its Jubilee Year, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

And the Ecumenical Musical Event that Will Be Implemented in Beirut

With the launching of the fiftieth year of its founding, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) will participate in a press conference at the Catholic Media Center in Lebanon, on Tuesday 9 January 2024, at 11 a.m. Beirut time. During the conference, the launching of the “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity” 2024 will be announced, and bears this year the title “You shall love the Lord your God... and your neighbour as yourself” (Luke 10:27). As well as, MECC will presents the program of its Jubilee Year (1974-2024), and announces the Ecumenical musical event that will be held for the occasion in Beirut, on Saturday 20 January 2024.

The conference includes many speeches that will be delivered by His Eminence Archbishop Youssef Soueif, President of the Episcopal Committee for Ecumenical Relations at the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon, Dr. Michel Abs, the Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches, Mr. Marc Merhej, the Organizer of the Ecumenical musical event, and Father Tanios Khalil, Dean of the Faculty of Religious and Theological Sciences at La Sagesse University in Lebanon.