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Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I PRESIDES OVER A MEETING OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE MIDDLE
EAST COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (MECC)
Tuesday night, 21 August 2012, His Holiness Aram I, one of the Presidents of
the MECC, moderated an emergency meeting of the Council. The other
Presidents attending the meeting were: Syriac Catholic Patriarch His
Beatitude Youssef III Lahham, representing the Catholic family of churches,
His Grace Mounib Younan, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran in Jordan and
the Holy Land, on behalf of the Protestant churches, the General Secretary,
His Grace Bishop Paul Rohanna and Associate General Secretary, Dr. Elias
Halabi. Rev. Dr. Habib Badr, the Moderator of the MECC Task Force, also
attended the meeting.
The agenda included two issues: Humanitarian assistance to refugees and
displaced people in Syria. Until recently, the MECC's programme operated out
of Damascus. Given the deteriorating situation in the country, the
presidents decided to decentralize the operation and create new centres for
humanitarian aid in Aleppo, Homs, Latakia and Kamishli. They also decided
that they would ask other ecumenical organizations in the country to
continue their activities, but in coordination with the local churches.
The second item was the nomination of a new general secretary. The current
General Secretary Bishop Paul Rohanna, is resigning because of his new
calling by his Church as a Diocesan Bishop. According to MECC by-Laws the
new general secretary must be nominated during the next six month. They
decided to set the procedures.
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I PRESIDES OVER A MEETING OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE MIDDLE
EAST COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (MECC)
Tuesday night, 21 August 2012, His Holiness Aram I, one of the Presidents of
the MECC, moderated an emergency meeting of the Council. The other
Presidents attending the meeting were: Syriac Catholic Patriarch His
Beatitude Youssef III Lahham, representing the Catholic family of churches,
His Grace Mounib Younan, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran in Jordan and
the Holy Land, on behalf of the Protestant churches, the General Secretary,
His Grace Bishop Paul Rohanna and Associate General Secretary, Dr. Elias
Halabi. Rev. Dr. Habib Badr, the Moderator of the MECC Task Force, also
attended the meeting.
The agenda included two issues: Humanitarian assistance to refugees and
displaced people in Syria. Until recently, the MECC's programme operated out
of Damascus. Given the deteriorating situation in the country, the
presidents decided to decentralize the operation and create new centres for
humanitarian aid in Aleppo, Homs, Latakia and Kamishli. They also decided
that they would ask other ecumenical organizations in the country to
continue their activities, but in coordination with the local churches.
The second item was the nomination of a new general secretary. The current
General Secretary Bishop Paul Rohanna, is resigning because of his new
calling by his Church as a Diocesan Bishop. According to MECC by-Laws the
new general secretary must be nominated during the next six month. They
decided to set the procedures.