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MECC Offices Facilitate Delegations¹ Visits


From mecc <mecc@cyberia.net.lb>
Date Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:56:43 +0200

Several Western church delegations visited Lebanon and Syria this month.
Among others, a group of teachers of religions in Norwegian schools, the
United Evangelical churches in Netherlands, the Presbyterian Church Chicago
Task Force, the Church of Sweden. The delegations came on study tours to
learn more about Christianity in the region and to make contacts with local
churches and learn about Muslim-Christian co-existence and their
experiences. The delegations visited project and sites in the 2 countries,
met with Heads of Churches, Muslim religious leaders including the Grand
Mufti of Syria.

Middle East Council of Churches
Office of International Ecumenical Relations
P.O. Box 5376, Beirut, Lebanon

Guirgis Ibrahim Saleh, General Secretary
mecc@cyberia.net.lb or guirgissaleh@cyberia.net.lb

+961-1-353-938
http://www.mec-churches.org/


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