wfn.org | WCC FAITH & ORDER STANDING COMMISSION MEETS IN CAIRO

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Hosted by the Coptic Orthodox Church the WCC Faith & Order Standing
Commission met at St Mark¹s Conference Centre in Cairo (16 -22 June).
Commissioners heard the reports on bilateral dialogues, uniting and united,
BEM, one baptism, ecclesiology, common witness and other related activities
reports. They discussed these reports in working groups, and focused on
project on moral discernment. The WCC General Secretary greeted the meeting
with words of encouragements. The WCC General Secretary, the MECC General
Secretary and the Commissioners were received by Patriarch Theodoros II of
the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria and All Africa. Patriarch Theodoros
II bestowed on Kobia the Cross of the Patriarchate and congratulated him
upon his contribution to the WCC.
Source: www.wcc-coe.org <http://www.wcc-coe.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/