The National Evangelical Church of Beirut Celebrates its 175th Anniversary

The National Evangelical Church of Beirut, the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the Middle East, celebrated its 175th anniversary with a special ceremony on Sunday, 14 May, 2023, in the presence of local and international Ecumenical Church Leaders.

On this occasion, representing the Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East UAECNE, Reverend Dr. Paul Haidostian, President of Haigazian University in Lebanon, and President of the Middle East Council of Churches for the Evangelical Family, brought a message of encouragement from the Union to this historic church, known to many Armenian Evangelicals as the “Anglo-American Church”.

“For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.” (I Corinthians 3.9)

This news was originally published on the Facebook Page of the Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East.