The Middle East Council of Churches Invites You to Its New Monthly Webinar

“Wars, Abduction, Absence, and Ways to Reduce Harm”

Thursday 25 April 2024 - 7 pm Beirut time

On the commemoration of the day of the kidnapping of the two Archbishops of Aleppo, Metropolitan Boulos Yaziji and Metropolitan Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim, and on the commemoration of the "The Ecumenical Day for the Abducted and the Forcibly Absented", which the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) had launched and designated on 22 April of each year, MECC invites you to participate in its monthly webinar, entitled “Wars, Abduction, Absence, and Ways to Reduce Harm”, on Thursday 25 April 2024 – 7 pm Beirut Time.

You can participate in the webinar via the following Zoom link https://www.tinyurl.com/2wbyvvyr, and live on the MECC Facebook Page.

The webinar, which includes two interventions, will start with an opening speech by its moderator Dr. Laure Abi Khalil, which will be followed with a speech by the Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches Dr. Michel Abs.

The first intervention is entitled “Abduction and Killing based on Identity... Gaza as an Example,” with Prof. Dr. Abd Al-Rahman Al-Maghrabi, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Union of Historians and Archaeologists.

The second intervention revolves around “Reparations in the Iraqi Experience and Focus on Compensatory Justice: An Unilateral Horizon for Transitional Justice,” with Dr. Mahmoud Ezzo Hamdo, Peace Building Center - University of Mosul.

This webinar which ends with a conclusion and discussion, is part of the series of monthly seminars launched by MECC, within the framework of the “Human Dignity Project” - “Dialogue and Social Cohesion-Social Capital Rehabilitation”, that MECC is working to implement consecutively.