Following the Beirut Port Blast that destroyed the capital massively, the Middle East Council of Churches, Service and Relief – Diakonia Department, Lebanon Office, worked on the restoration of the damaged small businesses and investments in order to help their owners restore their hope and get back their sources of income after they lost everything they owned.

After having their businesses rehabilitated by MECC, the Council moved on with the second phase of the project in which it focused on business empowerment. Not only affected small business owners benefitted from this project but so did members of the surrounding community

Report: June 2nd, 2023

The Middle East Council of Churches is being involved in the relief and rehabilitation efforts in Syria under the name of "Rescue Syria Campaign" through which the Council shall be dealing with the relief efforts in this emergency period and later on with rehabilitation plans in order to help people survive properly and resume a normal life with dignity.

MECC will be publishing a periodical report under the name of "Rescue Syria Update" which will keep you informed about the developments of MECC action as well as the overall situation in a context analysis perspective. 

Former Moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee

The Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches Dr. Michel Abs mourns Dr. Agnes Abuom, former Moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee, in a letter of condolence he addressed it to Reverend Professor Dr. Jerry Pillay, Secretary General of the World Council of Churches.

In all components of this world, whether created by the Creator or man-made, the smallest cell determines the largest or final structure.

If the family constitutes the smallest cell in human societies, then its composition and dynamics are what determine the composition and the dynamics of society, taking into consideration, of course, the intermediate structures that play a basic role in most cases, such as institutions, classes, and culturally diverse groups, and all other components of the complex and fabulous social structure for the specialists and analysts, who are concerned with its reality and fate.

Studying the reality of the family and efforts to organize it in the broadest sense, are therefore part of society’s self-awareness through its researchers, despite how much their ideas and propositions were neglected and how much their achievements and aspirations were ignored. Many societies did not do justice to them ignoring their importance in terms of organizing society and improving its conditions.

Towards Consolidating the Relations Between the Vatican, the Apostolic Nunciature and MECC

The Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches Dr. Michel Abs headed a delegation from the MECC General Secretariat, in a visit to the Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon His Excellency Monsignor Paolo Borgia, on Wednesday 31 May 2023, at the Apostolic Nunciature in Harissa, Lebanon.

The MECC delegation included the Secretary General Dr. Abs, the Associate Secretary General Mrs. Seta Hadeshian, the Associate Secretary General Dr. Nicola Bustros, and the Director of the MECC Theological and Ecumenical Department Father Dr. Antoine Al Ahmar.

During the meeting, the attendees discussed various topics. Dr. Abs presented to the Apostolic Nuncio His Excellency Monsignor Borgia the MECC mission and work, in addition to its history and structure, as well as the most prominent activities and programs it implements in the Middle East. Moreover, the attendees discussed ways to strengthen the relations between the Apostolic Nunciature, the Vatican Dicasteries and the Middle East Council of Churches, in order to work and participate together in various activities.

Three months has passed since the earthquake that hit the North of the Antiochian Levant, and the survivors in Syria are still suffering from this disaster’s repercussions on various levels, as their wounds have not yet healed.

From its end, the Middle East Council of Churches continues its endeavors to support the affected people in order to alleviate the impact of this tragedy by providing a new batch of in-kind food and health aid assistance, as you can find in the video.

Report: May 27th, 2023

The Middle East Council of Churches is being involved in the relief and rehabilitation efforts in Syria under the name of "Rescue Syria Campaign" through which the Council shall be dealing with the relief efforts in this emergency period and later on with rehabilitation plans in order to help people survive properly and resume a normal life with dignity.

MECC will be publishing a periodical report under the name of "Rescue Syria Update" which will keep you informed about the developments of MECC action as well as the overall situation in a context analysis perspective. 

The New Monthly Webinar Organized by MECC

Secretary General Dr. Michel Abs: We hope that the economic, social and cultural transformations will accumulate in order to form, one day, enough pressure to create a society that follows new rules

The Middle East Council of Churches continues its series of monthly seminars, and held a new webinar on the theme of "Family Planning and Human Dignity", on Thursday 25 May 2023, with the participation of specialists, academicians, and interested attendees in the topic at hand. Noting that this webinar comes within the framework of the “Human Dignity Project” - “Dialogue and Social Cohesion-Social Capital Rehabilitation”, which MECC is implementing consecutively.

The webinar, which was broadcasted live on the MECC Facebook Page, included three interventions, moderated by Dr. Chawki Attieh, who highlighted in his opening speech the concept of family planning and its goals, as well as the issue of human dignity in the context of the webinar’s topic.

In the new issue of the weekly newsletter Momentum issued by the Middle East Council of Churches, Communication and Public Relations Department, MECC strongly condemns the armed conflicts taking place in the country and affecting the Sudanese brothers and sisters, and also denounces the painful attacks on the Churches and places of worships in the country, which some of them were converted into military barracks. As for the weekly message of the MECC Secretary General Dr. Michel Abs, it is entitled “An Open Letter to the Incarnate Lord, Jesus Christ”, in which he condemned the lack of humanness in our societies which are mired in problems and crises, instead of adhering to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the convening of the MECC 12th General Assembly under the title “Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid” (Matthew 14:27) between 16 and 20 May 2022, at the Papal Logos Center in Wadi El Natrun in Egypt, with the generous hospitality of His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, and the support of Reverend Dr. Andrea Zaki, President of the Evangelical Churches in Egypt and its institutions, the issue presents a video highlighting some footages and fraternal moments from this historic Ecumenical event.

His Eminence Bishop Dr. Munib Younan, MECC Honorary President, Will Be Awarded the Title of Doctor Honoris Causa

In the spring, the Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and the Faculty of Law will celebrate the conferral of degrees. The Faculty of Philosoply will hold its hundredth conferment ceremony.

As per tradition, the title of doctor honoris causa, the University’s highest recognition, will be awarded, in connection with the conferment ceremonies, to several individuals. This year, a total of 30 distinguished individuals from around the world will be conferred as honorary doctors.

We have begun the third millennium of Your Incarnation, and the world is as it is. You are familiar with it as You came for it, O Master.

Humanity is in steady decline, as if it is in a backward-time slow race, steadily retreating towards states of primitiveness.

This world, in which Your Kingdom has never been established, denies itself when it denies Your values ​​and teachings.

All that which You had predicted, Lord Incarnate, we live today.

All the iniquities of the world, the humankind has displayed publicly, without shame or ignominy, boasting about them, driving people into a race to commit bad deeds.

With the renewal of violent clashes and air strikes in Sudan, the Middle East Council of Churches strongly condemns the armed conflicts taking place in the country and affecting the Sudanese brothers and sisters. MECC also denounces the painful attacks on the Churches and places of worships, which some of them were converted into military barracks. These acts are dangerous, constitute a threat to human dignity, and a violation to the freedom of religion and human rights for people to live in peace and security.