of the Executive Committee Meeting of the Middle East Council of Churches

Beirut, 10–11 December 2025

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of the Executive Committee Meeting of the Middle East Council of Churches

Beirut, 10–11 December 2025

The Executive Committee of the Middle East Council of Churches held its regular meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, on Wednesday and Thursday, 10 and 11 December 2025, under the presidency of His Eminence Anba Antonios, Metropolitan of Jerusalem and the Near East for the Coptic Orthodox Church and President of the Council for the Oriental Orthodox family, represented by His Eminence Anba Hermina, General Bishop of the Churches of East Alexandria; and His Beatitude Patriarch John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East for the Greek Orthodox Church and President of the Council for the Orthodox family, represented by His Eminence Metropolitan Antonios Al-Soury, Metropolitan of Zahle, Baalbek, and their dependencies; and His Eminence Rev. Dr. Paul Haidostian, President of the Union of Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East and President of the Council representing the Evangelical family; and His Beatitude Patriarch Raphael Bedros XXI Minassian, Catholicos-Patriarch of the House of Cilicia for the Armenian Catholic Church and President of the Council for the Catholic family.

Your mission is to strengthen the Christian presence in the East so that it may be active, influential, and steadfast in serving the cause of humanity, its present, and future

President Joseph Aoun affirmed that the visit of Holy Father Leo XIV was not only for the Church of Lebanon or for the Lebanese, but for all the Christians of the East who are the sons and daughters of this land in which they are embodied. He called on the delegation of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), which he received on the morning of Thursday 11 December 2025, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, to work to ensure that the Christian presence in the East is active, influential and steadfast in serving the cause of humanity, its present and future.

Please click here to read word delivered by the Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) Professor Michel Abs, during the meeting of the MECC Executive Committee with the President of Lebanon General Joseph Aoun, on Thursday, December 11, 2025, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda.