The Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) co-organized a special workshop on “Diakonia and Capacity Building” at the Lady of the Well Monastery in Lebanon from November 28 to December 3, 2016.
His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II delegated Very Rev. Raban Yacoub Babawi (Iraq), Mr. Shady Sarweh (Executive Director of EPDC – Syria), Mr. Majd Lahdo (Aleppo – Syria), and Issam Dahi (Homs – Syria) to represent the Syriac Orthodox Church in the workshop.
Very Rev. Raban Yacoub Babawi gave an overview of the work in Iraq and the witness of faith that Christians are giving as well as the social work offered to the needy there.
Mr. Shady Sarweh spoke about the development work of EPDC in Syria and Iraq and presented the different projects executed by the committee in a short video.
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