Westminster Abbey Service to celebrate Christians in the Middle East
Director General and Chief Imam Sayed Ali Abbas Razawi gives a reflection on the role and value of Christians in the Middle East at Westminster Abbey.
Sayed Razawi concluded in his reflection by stating “If there is to be peace in the Middle East, Christians must be a part of the solution. There is an old saying that says hearts touch hearts. The power of the human heart to revive faith even in the worst of conditions is nothing short of miraculous.
Fear can only be overcome when compassion and love for the other is found in our hearts once more. Perhaps it is difficult to trust again, but Jesus taught us just that, an ability to love thy neighbor as a tool to rebuild trust.
Christians and Muslims must learn to walk together again, shoulder to shoulder, under the shadow of God”.
The event was attended by clergy representing churches of the Middle East and North Africa, and HRH The Prince of Wales.
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Picture credit: Westminster Abbey
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- The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall
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- HRH The Prince of Wales
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- Sister Nazek Matty, Dominican Sisters of St Catherine of Sienna, Iraq
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- The Most Revd Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
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- An Archbishop from Iraq and Bishop from Iran.
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- Bob Fyffe General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
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- The Most Reverend Suheil Dawani, Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem,
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- (left to right) with Syrian Orthodox Bishop, His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem, Imam Sayed Ali Abass Razawi, The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall
