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After our visit of the President of Lebanon we met Patriarch Gregory III Laham in front of the President’s palace, as the Pope had just excepted his resignation at age 84 and he officially said farewell to the President. So we just drove to his second official residence (the first one is in Damascus).
Together with members of the Royal Ghassanid family from Lebanon and Jordan including Prince Gharios and Sheikh El Chemor, which ruled Lebanon until the 18th century, I had the privilege to discuss religious freedom with the President of Lebanon.
His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II was invited to give a talk in a discussion panel on “Protecting Freedom of Belief and Christian Minorities in Zones of Conflict.”
Our IGFM letter on the 25th anniversary of the Patriarch's office
Pictures of my Cuba journey
A delegation of the ZOCD Board and Advisory Board, headed by the Advisory Board Chairman Thomas Schirrmacher, participated in the opening ceremony of the new Syriac Orthodox Church in Giessen. The Advisory Board Chairman participated as a bishop in the ceremony and conveyed the ZOCD’s welcoming words to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch S.H. Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II and to the Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier.
Das Ehrenoberhaupt der Orthodoxen Kirchen, der Ökumenische Patriarch Bartholomäus informierte die Weltweite Evangelische Allianz (WEA) über die Ergebnisse des Orthodoxen Konzils in Kreta. Anlass war ein Besuch des Vorsitzenden der Theologischen Kommission und Moderators für zwischenkirchliche Beziehungen der Weltweiten Evangelischen am Amtssitz des Patriarchen.