Awareness Foundation Visiting Our Church
A delegation from Awareness Foundation (AF) from UK and Canada visited our church on Saturday, April 22, 2017. Rev. Habib Badr who is the Regional Chair of the Consultant Body of the AF in the Middle East introduced to them a brief history of our church and the Lebanon's current confessional and political system. Later on they had the chance to visit the Lebanon's highest Sunni authority at Dar el-Fatwa and meet his Eminence Sheikh Abdel Latif Deryan with Dr. Muhammad Al Sammak, Secretary General of the Christian-Muslim Committee for Dialogue. Together, they discussed Al-Azhar's Cairo Declaration 2017 on Christian-Muslim coexistence.
On Sunday 23rd of April, the delegation attended the worship service and Rev. Peter Walker, priest of the Grace Church of the Hill, from the Anglican Church in Toronto, preached in our church, while Rev. Nadim Nassar, the Director of AF, translated the sermon into Arabic. Along with the group were Mr. Nigel Macdonald (Chairman of the AF in UK), Mr. Christopher Bunting (Chairman of the AF in Canada), Mr. James Appleyard, Mr. Robert Davies, Mrs. Carolyn Hallet, Dr. Ketty Sarophim, Dr. George Sabra, Fr. Fadi Daou, Fr. Gabriel Hashim and Miss Huda Nassar.
