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Leaders and Positions
Video - His Beatitude Patriarch Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rai: Consecration of Lebanon and the East to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) Issues Its Weekly Newsletter
“Momentum”
26-9-2025
This issue includes reports, videos, news, articles, and a full coverage of the latest developments of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), as well as the Church, Ecumenical, and social events…
This is in addition to the weekly word of the MECC Secretary General Professor Michel Abs which is entitled in this issue “It Happened in Kazakhstan”.
You can check the issue via the following link: https://mailchi.mp/da24c0dafa97/momentum-mecc-weekly-newsletter.
You can also subscribe to the Momentum Newsletter via the following link: https://mecc.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=fd3381352a&u=1db32cafe9ea32b38eb90480a.
Video - Reverend Joseph Kassab, Secretary General of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon, and Member of the MECC Executive Committee
at the MECC Partners Meeting - September 2025
Season of Creation: Towards Peace in the World
Practical Steps and Diverse Activities Contribute to Consolidating the Environmental Issue
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Prayer, Faith, Praise, and Hope... This is the "Season of Creation," which brings with it much joy, awareness, and determination to work together for a cause considered one of the most important in the Ecumenical world: the environmental issue, which has become an urgent priority today.
The "Season of Creation" began on September 1 and continues until October 4, with international Prayers, celebrations, and events that emphasize the need to protect and preserve God's creation, based on our shared Christian responsibility toward it, and the importance of the commitment to the environmental issue and its follow-up for a more peaceful future.
Peace is the focus of this year' “Season of Creation”, which takes the theme “Peace with Creation” and the symbol of “Garden of Peace”, inspired by Isaiah 32: 14-18. How can Christians around the world instill Christian environmental values through their celebrations?
Video - Word of Father Movses Yosolkanian, Eco Justice Unit Officer at MECC
at the MECC Partners Meeting - September 2025
Video - Important Files Program with the MECC Secretary General Professor Michel Abs
Ninth Episode About His Participation in the The VIII Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions _ Kazakhstan
Prepared and Presented by the Journalist Lea Adel Maamary
Produced by MECC
Leaders and Positions
Video - His Holiness Pope Tawadros II: Love in the Epistles of Saint Paul
On the Feast of Saint Thecla, the First Martyr and Equal of the Apostles
A Documentary that Sheds Light on the Church of Saint Thecla in the Town of Ain al-Sindyana, Metn - Lebanon
Leaders and Positions
Video - His Beatitude Patriarch Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rai: The Parable of the Sower
Video - Word of His Eminence Metropolitan Antonios Al Soury, Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Zahle, Baalbek and their Dependencies, and Member of the MECC Executive Committee
at the MECC Partners Meeting - September 2025
Leaders and Positions
Video - His Beatitude Patriarch Mor Ignatius Joseph III Younan: The Cross is the Power of God
The Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) Issues Its Weekly Newsletter
“Momentum”
19-9-2025
This issue includes reports, videos, news, articles, and a full coverage of the latest developments of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), as well as the Church, Ecumenical, and social events…
This is in addition to the weekly word of the MECC Secretary General Professor Michel Abs which is entitled in this issue “An Oasis of Hope in the Desert of Despair”. It is the word he delivered at the Workshop on the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus- Organized by MECC in Jordan between 15 and 16 September 2025.
You can check the issue via the following link: https://mailchi.mp/d5aed8eab078/momentum-mecc-weekly-newsletter.
You can also subscribe to the Momentum Newsletter via the following link: https://mecc.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=fd3381352a&u=1db32cafe9ea32b38eb90480a.
Martyrs of Love and Faith in the 21st Century
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV Commemorates them in an Ecumenical Celebration: “Many brothers and sisters, even today, carry the same cross as our Lord…: like him, they are persecuted, condemned and killed”
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Witnesses of Christianity and servants of humanity... They are truly witnesses of faith and hope... The Kingdom of God crowned them as witnesses to Jesus Christ after an earthly journey of suffering filled with heavenly joy. They carried the Church in their hearts and traveled as apostles of Christ to preach His name throughout the world despite all the challenges, hardships, and difficulties that surrounded them.
The angels rejoice over them, and the faithful raise their Prayers in honor of all the Martyrs of the Lord who tirelessly devoted their efforts, spreading the values of love and fraternity, and hoping for peace, tranquility, and stability throughout the world.
The Vatican commemorated the Martyrs of the Church on Sunday, September 14, coinciding with the Feast of the Holy Cross, in an Ecumenical celebration commemorating the Martyrs and Witnesses of the Faith in the 21st Century. A Liturgical celebration presided over by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV included representatives of the Orthodox Churches, the Ancient Eastern Churches, Ecclesial communities, and Ecumenical organizations.
Indeed, the celebration provided an oasis of spiritual Prayer and an Ecumenical moment calling for renewed gratitude for the gift of witness, which continues to this day.