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Join CMEP, the World Council of Churches, our board member organization the Franciscan Friars, and Christians around the world for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, January 18-24, 2023. The theme for 2023 is: Do good; seek justice (Isaiah 1:17).
The Franciscans elaborate on the theme for 2023: "The entire scriptural passage for the theme is Isaiah 1:12-18, lamenting a lack of justice among the People of God. Yet, it also promises redemption by encouraging acts of justice." Read more about this week here.
CMEP will be hosting a religious leader from the Middle East January 18, 19, 23, & 24 for a live time of prayer and reflection on Zoom at 10 am Eastern. Join us as we pray together in hope of Christian Unity.
Speaker: Mira G. Neaimeh, Regional Executive of World Student Christian Federation (WSCF-ME)
Mira Neaimeh is a longtime member of WSCF-ME through the Orthodox Youth Movement. From 2013 to 2017, she acted as a proxy on the regional committee and, in March 2019, filled the role of regional executive. Some of her accomplishments as executive include establishing international connections with the KAICIID center for dialogue and the Presbyterian Church in the United States. She also built a partnership with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) that is based at the University of Sussex. Moreover, she is working on strengthening WSCF-ME’s online presence through social media and other platforms.
Mira is a professional and public sworn translator. Both her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree, from Saint Joseph University (USJ), are in translation studies. Multilingual, she speaks Arabic, French, English, and Spanish, with some proficiency in German. Before her executive position at WSCF-ME, she worked as a translator for Credit Libanais. She also has six years’ worth of experience in technical writing and translation at Path Solutions, a fintech digital solution provider. In 2017, she was invited as a guest speaker on the World Council of Churches’ panel at the United Nation’s sixty-first Commission on the Status of Women. In 2020, she was selected among 350 youth leaders to participate in the UNESCO Leadership Training Program on ESD and TVET for Arab Youth.
Speaker: Richard Sewell, St. George's Cathedral
Dean Richard Sewell is British and has previously served as a priest in the Diocese of Southwark in the UK. His last post before moving to Jerusalem was as Team Rector of Barnes Team Ministry which comprises three churches in South West London.
Richard was ordained priest on the Feast of St Francis, 2003. He trained for ministry at SEITE now St Augustine’s College. He also studied Theology at the University of Birmingham for his B.A. He did further studies at Heythrop College for an M.A. in Biblical Studies.
His first encounter with the Holy Land was working as a volunteer for the Church of Scotland Hospice in Tiberias (now The Scots Hotel) in the 1980s. For three years he ran an Inter-Faith Project in East London.
Prior to ordination Richard worked for the Anglican Mission Agency, USPG, as a mission educator with additional responsibilities for USPG’s relationship with the Churches in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
JulieAnn, his wife, was a Primary School Counsellor, but in Jerusalem she is helping with work at the Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre. This is a Diocesan institution which rehabilitates children with disabilities. Richard and JulieAnn’s adult children, Nathaniel and Eliana, continue to pursue their careers in the UK.
Dean Richard, in addition to his role as Dean of the College, is a Residentiary Canon of St George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem and is Honorary Canon of Southwark Cathedral in his home diocese in the Church of England. The Diocese of Southwark is Dean Richard’s sponsoring agency in his role as Dean.
Speaker: Rev. Sally Azar - Lutheran pastor
Rev. Sally Azar was born and raised in Jerusalem. She earned a bachelor's degree in Theology from the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon, which she received in 2019. In 2022 she finished her Masters of International Theology from the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen and Hermannsburg, Germany. She continued in her internship until December of 2022 during which she served at the Evangelische Johanneskirche Frohnau in Germany.
Sally is very involved in the international Lutheran community, serving as a Council Member of the Lutheran World Federation.
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