Lebanon
With the initiative of the Middles East Council of Churches, on Saturday the 24th of January 2009, His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX Catholicos Patriarch of Cilicia for Armenian Catholics participated in the celebration of the Divine Liturgy in the Greek Orthodox St. George cathedral in Jdeideh El-Metn. His Excellency Msgr. Boghos Koussan and bishops from the Maronite and Assyrian Orthodox churches, as well as reverends from the Evangelical churches participated.
This year’s title is inspired from St. Paul’s letters to the Ephesians, “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling”.(Ephesians 4)