Young Christians and Muslims from the Middle East, representing churches and Islamic institutes will meet in Aleppo for three days to discuss the topic: "Creation & Religions as Sources of Unity".
This Seminar comes as a follow up to other Christian-Muslim Youth encounters and is one of a series organized during the past four years by the Middle East Council of Churches General Secretariat in coordination with the Unit on Education and Renewal. These youth encounters are motivated by the deep conviction that grass-roots young people should be part of the mainstream dialogue between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East, and that they should be encouraged to learn about each other in order to maintain the dialogue of life.
The Seminar will be organized as part of the special celebrations of the city of Aleppo in Syria named "The Capital of Islamic Culture for 2006". It will start on November 30 and end on December 3, 2006, providing space for young Christians and Muslims to interact in dialogue and discussions on the chosen theme. Field visits to Christian and Muslim institutes will be part of the daily program as well as sight seeing in Aleppo.
The opening ceremony will be marked with the presence of H.G. Archbishop Butros Mryati, Archbishop of the Armenian Catholic Archbishopric in Aleppo and member of the MECC Executive Committee, Fr. Hady Mahfouz, MECC Associate General Secretary and Christian and Muslim religious leaders in Aleppo. For further information, please contact Mr. Razek Siriani at: rsiriani@scs-net.org, www.meccyouth.org <http://www.meccyouth.org/
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/