On the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, WCC and MECC Unite Together in Prayer
“How lovely it is to get together in love our Lord teaches us, When two meet in my name together I will always be in between their gather” (from the “How Lovely” hymn).
On the occasion of the “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity” 2022, the World Council of Churches and the Middle East Council of Churches united in prayer, at the invitation of the team of the World Ecumenical Center in Geneva. A prayer jointly organized with the Theological and Ecumenical Department at the General Secretariat of the Middle East Council of Churches.
Together, the participants launched the Eight-Day-Prayer on Monday 17 January 2022, and concluded it on Monday 24 January 2022. The prayer was a symbol of true Christian unity and building bridges between the East and West, and all the Christians in the world who believe in one Holy and Apostolic Church.
The dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, Archimandrite Jack Khalil participated in the opening prayer alongside Mrs. Frida Haddad Abs who presented the spiritual meditation.
In the second online prayer, Metropolitan Vasilios of Ammochostos, Cyprus, also participated with the President of the Episcopal Committee for Ecumenical Relations for the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon HE Bishop Joseph Mouawad. As for the spiritual meditation, it was presented by the director of the Theological and Ecumenical Department Father Antoine Al Ahmar.