AL-AZHAR, Egypt – With the help of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS), the leadership of the Mainline Evangelical Churches of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt were given a chance to meet with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, His Excellency Ahmed Tayyib, the highest authority of Islam. Led by Rev. … [Read more…]
CAIRO – The Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Churches (FMEEC) held its second International Conference on the topic: Evangelicals and Christian Presence in The East from 10-12 September 2014 at the Concord El Salam Heliopolis Hotel in Cairo – Egypt. This Conference comes as a follow up to FMEEC’s previous conference on the same topic … [Read more…]
CAIRO, September 10th Your Beatitudes, Your Eminences, People of God, Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Jesus Christ says to us today, “Get up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and testify to the things in which you have seen me … [Read more…]
BEIRUT – On March 9th, 2014, in conjunction with the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Churches (FMEEC), Bishop Munib Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Holy Land and Rev. Dr. Habib Badr of the National Evangelical Church of Beirut concelebrated Holy Communion. In 2006, the ELCJHL … [Read more…]
BEIRUT, 17 February 2012 (FMEEC) – In light of the radical changes that the Middle East region is currently passing through; changes that directly impact the present and future destiny of its Christian inhabitants — instilling in them a genuine fear of what lies ahead — the Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Churches (Lutheran – … [Read more…]
Leaders of the Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Churches (FMEEC) met in Cairo in early March to strategize about how to strengthen the evangelical witness in the Middle East in the face of huge challenges. Leaders from the Holy Land, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and the Sudan discussed their ministries and experiences. Although … [Read more…]
Mutual Recognition of Evangelical Middle East Churches From the east and from the west around the Holy Land, they gathered in Amman in January of 2006 for an historical occasion. Evangelicals from Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Kuwait, Iran, Algeria and Tunisia signed together “The Amman Declaration Agreement of Full Mutual Recognition of Lutheran and … [Read more…]
Ten women from the ELCJHL attended the “Women in Leadership” Conference of the Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Churches (FMEEC) in late October in Amman, Jordan. More than fifty women attended from different evangelical traditions such as Lutheran, Presbyterian and Evangelical Armenian, from Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Kuwait. A psychologist and a representative … [Read more…]