Middle East Council of Churches calls for “an immediate halt of fighting and war” in Nagorno-Karabakh / Artsakh

BEIRUT – The Middle East Council of Churches has called for “an immediate halt of fighting and war” in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). Via Twitter, the Middle East Council of Churches appealed to regional and international rulers, officials and responsible “to work on a peace initiative in a region which is boiling with hatred, religious and ethnic incitement.”

The Middle East Council of Churches also stated that stands in solidarity with the Armenian Church and the invitation of His Holiness, the Catholicos-Aram-I, Keshishian Patriarch, the Armenian-Orthodox Church, of the Holy See of Cilicia, to pray for the sake of Armenia and the Armenian people.

According to its mission statement, the Middle East Council of Churches work towards the unification of visions, perspectives and attitudes among Eastern churches, especially on issues related to Christian presence and witness in the Middle East and Muslim-Christian relations.

The following Syriac churches are member churches: Syriac Maronite Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Greek Catholic Melkite Church, the Syriac Chaldean Catholic Church of Babylon, Syriac Catholic Church, and Syriac evangelical churches.

The Ancient Church of the East and the Assyrian Church of the East are not members. The other Syriac churches are waiting to grant membership to the Ancient Church of the East and the Assyrian Church of the East when all Syriacs from the Middle East have disappeared.

#TheMiddleEastCouncilofChurches calls for an immediate halt of fighting &war in #Karabakh #Artsakh.MECC appeals to regional & international rulers, officials &responsible to work on the initiative of #Peace in the region which is boiling with hatred, religious & ethnic incitement pic.twitter.com/sXOq2t2nfn

— MECC (@MECChurches) October 8, 2020