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Video: Christmas message from the Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches Dr. Michel Abs

A Child is Born, God is Incarnated

This message is sent from the Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches, the servant of the Churches and the people of the area where Christ is born, the area named the cradle of civilization, and at the same time the cradle of Christianity. The birth of the incarnated Savior on his land, the land of the Levant, the land of Palestine, is by itself a message to humanity.

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The Christmas star, at the gathering of the MECC General Secretariat’s team

The preparations for Christmas and the Birth of Jesus Christ our Savior in the MECC General Secretariat’s family started in an annual spiritual retreat entitled “The Christmas star”, and took place in Saydet El Bir Monastery, Bkennaya - Jal El Dib, Lebanon.

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Christmas is lighting up Beirut's Darkness

In another recent update concerning the Beirut blast, Fadi Sawan, the judicial investigator assigned for the Beirut case, was suspended from the investigations as two former ministers, who were accused of negligence, submitted a demand requesting that the case should be transferred to another judge.

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Message of the MECC Secretary General Dr. Michel Abs in the first release of the council’s Weekly Newsletter

This is the unified weekly bulletin of the Middle East Council of Churches. Through it, we shall communicate to Church Leaders and parishioners, sisters and brothers of the International Ecumenical Family as well as individuals and organizations concerned with the MECC, its attitudes vis-a-vis what is happening in a world in turmoil and its actions in the different fields where its teams are intervening.

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The Pandemic of Poverty

Report: 1 to 15 December 2020

As Christians around the world brace themselves for Christmas and all the joy the holidays bring, the MECC would like to remind our readers that poverty has reached dangerously high levels in the Middle East. According to UNICEF, the Middle East is experiencing one of the most fraught situations in the world, with more than 32 million children in need of humanitarian assistance.

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Video: Towards the MECC 12th General Assembly

An extraordinary meeting of the Executive Committee in Bkerke

During the year 2020, that is coming to an end, the 12th General Assembly of the Middle East Council of Churches, entitled “Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid” (Matthew 14:27), was supposed to take place in September at the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke, Lebanon. However, the unpleasant circumstances imposed by the Coronavirus pandemic impeded it, which led the MECC’s Executive Committee to hold an extraordinary meeting on the 17th of September, during which the member churches’ representatives decided to set a new date for the General Assembly in September 2021.

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Complications in the Beirut Blast investigations

New aids for the homeless & the affected

In a latest update on the Beirut Blast case, Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab, refused to be questioned by a judge who accused him and three former ministers of negligence in connection with the explosion.

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Beirut Blast charges pushing through red lines

The judge Fadi Sawwan investigating the Beirut port explosion has charged Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three former ministers (former finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil, public works ministers Ghazi Zeaiter and Youssef Finianos) with negligence which led to the devastating event in which 200 people were killed and swathes of buildings left in ruins.

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