The dream has become a reality… With God’s grace, the Ecumenical Institute for the Middle East has been founded and launched to enrich the Ecumenical Movement in the Middle East, building cadres for the church youth who posses knowledge about the churches of the East, their past and their present, about Islam and the Muslims, and the contemporary challenges. The Institute also seeks to broaden the knowledge of students on the bodies and institutions of the present ecumenism and working in the Middle East and the world.
The Institute’s administration has held several meeting about the Bossey Institute, subordinate of the World Council of churches in Geneva and has established cooperative basics that would support our institute in its first footsteps.
The Institute also seeks to create an effective ecumenical dynamism between its colleagues during their residence in Saint Augustine center in Lebanon where they can interact together through the life of love, knowledge, and common prayer.