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The Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) was inaugurated in May 1974 at its First General Assembly in Nicosia, Cyprus, and now has its headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. Initially it consisted of three "families" of Christian Churches in the Middle East, the Eastern Orthodox Churches , the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Evangelical Churches ...
SIM is an international, interdenominational Evangelical Christian mission organization. It was established in 1893 by its three founders, Walter Gowans and Rowland Bingham of Canada and Thomas Kent of the United States. The initials originally stood for "Soudan Interior Mission," Soudan being an older spelling of the Sudan region of West ...
As missionary influences gradually reduced, the Near East Christian Council took on a more indigenous flavour. As amicable contact and informal cooperation between the Protestants and the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox continued to develop, the Syriac Orthodox Church established formal cooperation with the Protestants in 1962 and enlarged council became known as the Near East Council of Churches.
In some regions, the level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the UN.” [54] [55] In 2024, the International Christian Concern again raised warnings about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. [56] Christian communities have played a ...
Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women; ... Caritas Middle East and North Africa; ... Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia;
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. [1] Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church [2] (including the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), [3] the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Union of Utrecht, the Lutheran World ...
They were subsequently held without charge and had their detention renewed on August 21. The two activists are members of the Middle East Christian Association (MICA). A Canadian non-governmental organisation applying for legal recognition with the Egyptian government in June 2007, MICA was involved in several controversial human rights cases. [4]
The number of Arab Christians who live in the Middle East was estimated in 2012 to be between 10 and 15 million. [1] Arab Christian communities can be found throughout the Arab world, but are concentrated in the Eastern Mediterranean region of the Levant and Egypt, with smaller communities present throughout the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa.