Holy Week, the week of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, is a unique event and a distinguished time of unparalleled significance in the history of humanity.

Holy Week summarizes human suffering with betrayal, tyranny, persecution, injustice and hatred.

During the current present week, full of events and teachings, the Lord summarizes for us the history of humankind soaked with hypocrisy, rooted in hatred and stained with blood, the blood of the innocent who are used as fuel in a hell made by tyrants they legitimize in order to heal their thirst for hatred.

On the occasion of the April 24, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, the Biden administration officially recognized the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide. Prompting the anger of Turkey, President Biden is the first US president to declare so. During the early part of the 20th century, one and the half million people were murdered as part of an ethnic cleansing scheme orchestrated by top Turkish decision makers.

The Light of Christ Overflows on this Divine and Historical Date

What Happens in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?

“Light up, O New Jerusalem! the glory of the Lord has shone upon you...” are phrases believers recite and sing with great joy on Holy Saturday, an annual date for a divine phenomenon. A miracle that consolidates and revives Christian faith, glorious light shines from the cradle of Christianity, Jerusalem, specifically from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Syria and Lebanon

Humanitarian Update

Reporting period: from 19 to 26 April 2021

Report: 28 April 2021

As ME citizens celebrate Ramadan, word of a new ‘highly transmissible virus strain, has reached the area.

With the various health sectors already under pressure, the spread of such a virus, which had been deemed by scientists as more dangerous, can spell a more difficult year for the world.

Report: 15 to 23 April 2021

As tensions heat up in Eastern Ukraine and the Pacific Ocean, attention seems to be shifting elsewhere away from the ME. For the moment, security risks and challenges seem to be occupying the minds of top decision makers, instead of working to end wars, abolish poverty, and save the children in the Middle East.

On the 23rd of April, Saudi Arabia declared that it has seized large amounts of drugs in a vegetable shipment from Lebanon and consequently, imposed a ban on Lebanese agricultural products. Similarly, Greek authorities announced seizing four tons of cannabis worth €33 million, hidden in dessert-making machinery at Piraeus that was en route from Lebanon to Slovakia.

Bringing life back to St. Mesrob Church and Ishakian School

Upholding Human dignity cannot be achieved in words but in deeds

We share together God’s resources

Amidst the deteriorating living conditions in the East, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) launches its new appeal in order to maintain the humanitarian and residency needs to directly affected Syrian and Iraqi refugees as well as host communities in Jordan.

Eight years after the Kidnapping of both Bishops Youhanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazigi, the Middle East Council of Churches once again calls upon concerned references, the Arab and international community, as well as humanitarian organizations, urging them to work to uncover the fate of Aleppo’s Bishops, priests and all kidnapped people.