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Magazine of the Jerusalem and the Middle East Church Association Bible Lands Winter 2019 Magazine of the Jerusalem and the Middle East Church Association www.jmeca.org.uk & TH M E M LE ID SA DL RU E E EA J S N T I D H I C O R C E U S H E C O L F A J P E O R C U S S I A P L E E M E H T Jerusalem Egypt & North Africa Cyprus & the Gulf Iran St. George’s College, Jerusalem ........................................................... p.4 Bishop Mouneer on ‘cultural pride’ ........................................................ p.9 The Church in Bahrain ......................................................................... p.10 Obituaries.............................................................................................. p.16 Book Reviews ....................................................................................... p.18 THE JERUSALEM AND Bible Lands Editor Letters, articles, comments are welcomed by the Editor: THE MIDDLE EAST CHURCH The Reverend Dr. Stephen W. Need ASSOCIATION Email: [email protected] The next issue will be published in May for (JMECA) Summer 2020. Views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily Founded in 1887 those of the Association; therefore only signed articles ‘To encourage support in prayer, money and will be published. personal service for the religious and other Front cover photo: Bethlehem. Birthplace of Jesus. charitable work of the Episcopal church in Jerusalem and the Middle East’. JMECA Website www.jmeca.org.uk The site has information for each of the four Dioceses Reg. Charity no. 1158476 www.jmeca.org.uk with links to the websites of each one and regular updates of Middle East news. Patron The Most Reverend and Right Honourable The Archbishop of Canterbury THE CENTRAL SYNOD OF THE PROVINCE Chairman President The Reverend Canon Anthony Ball The Most Revd Suheil Dawani Administrator Secretary Mrs Georgia Katsantonis Mrs. Shirley Eason [email protected] Assistant: Mrs. Shirley Atkins 1 Hart House, The Hart Treasurer The Ven Canon William Schwartz Farnham GU9 7HJ, Surrey. [email protected] Jerusalem Office days: Monday to Friday, 9.30am – 2.00pm. The Most Revd Suheil Dawani Tel/Fax 01252 726994 The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East, P.O. Box 19122, The Council of JMECA delegates the administration 65, Nablus Road, Jerusalem 91191 of its assets to a Standing Committee which is Tel: +972 2 6272932 [email protected] THE JERUSALEM AND THE EAST MISSION TRUST website: www.j-diocese.org LIMITED (JEMT) Administrator as above Iran Vicar General Directors The Revd Dr Albert Walters Mr. John Clark (Chairman) Egypt Dr. Clare Amos The Rt Revd Mouneer Anis Mr. Andrew Hill All Saints Cathedral, PO Box 87, Distribution Zamalek, Mr. John G Pringle (Hon Treasurer) Cairo, Egypt Tel: +20 2 2738 0821 The Reverend Dr. William Taylor [email protected] Mr. David Wright OBE website: www.dioceseofegypt.org The Reverend Canon Hugh Wybrew The Reverend Canon Dr Matthew Rhodes Cyprus and the Gulf The Rt Revd Michael Lewis Consultants Diocesean Office, PO Box 22075, 1517 Nicosia Tel: +357 22671220 The Reverend Dr. Stephen W. Need The Bishop’s PA Mr. Richard Owens OBE Mrs Georgia Katsantonis Sir Harold Walker KCMG [email protected] website: www.cypgulf.org 2 Mr John Clark, chair of the JMECA standing committee, writes: Looking back at past There have been a number of new appointments in editorials, most seem the region. The Ven Christopher Futcher from Exeter to begin with some Diocese, has succeeded John Holdsworth as Archdeacon comment on the areas of Cyprus while his wife Anne, takes on the role of social of tension and suffering in different parts of the region. As concern officer. There are a number of new canons as well. I write in early October the situation is little different. Turkish Jean Waddell, Secretary to the last two English Archbishops troops are poised to enter the Kurdish area of northern in Jerusalem and Secretary to Bishop Dehqani-Tafti, the first Syria; international sanctions are causing severe suffering President-Bishop, is remembered in an obituary. She came to the people of Iran; riots in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq to public prominence following the attack on her life and against corruption are threatening the current government; her imprisonment in Iran in 1980. Saudi Arabia is recovering from the rocket attack on the Abqaiq Aramco oil plant; and the terrible civil war in Yemen Changes to the Province. In our last issue we reported has started up again with Aden coming under threat. in the editorial that an exploration committee was being set up to look into two requests received by the Anglican A Church leader once suggested that press headlines Consultative Council (ACC) from the Province that the can be compared to the crests of waves, but what was Diocese of Egypt, North Africa and the Horn of Africa should important was to look at the deeper currents in the region become a separate, independent province; and that the that lie below the waves. One of those deeper currents is Diocese of Jerusalem should be recognised as having the continued faithful presence of Christian communities special status because of ‘its historical position as Mother carrying out the tasks of daily life, worship and witness as Church of our Christian Faith’. part of the tapestry of different communities in the region. The Committee, led by Mrs Maggie Swinson, Vice-Chair Bible Lands focuses particularly on the Anglican/Episcopal of the ACC includes Archbishop Justin Badi, Primate of Church as a small but integral part of the Christian Churches South Sudan, Archbishop Ezekiel Kondo, Primate of Sudan, of the Middle East and North Africa. In this issue the Editor Bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani of Loughborough representing opens with news from St George’s College Jerusalem, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Secretary-General under its new Dean, Canon Richard Sewell. Providing a and Chief Operating Officer of the Anglican Communion centre for theological education was a priority for JMECA’s Office. Visits to Ethiopia, particularly the Gambella region founder, Bishop Blyth, and St George’s was one of his bordering Sudan, then to Cairo and Alexandria precede a first initiatives at the end of the nineteenth century. John gathering in Amman, Jordan with representatives of the and Norma Emerton, whose obituaries are included, four dioceses on October 18th to consider the requests. were great supporters of the College – and indeed left a The recommendations from the Committee will go to the substantial legacy for JMECA to use in its ministry. Standing Committee of the ACC. The theological education theme continues with a report One concern to which the Exploration Committee will have on the work of the St. Frumentius’ School of Theology in to attend is the future structure of the three dioceses that research and graduations, forming a new generation of will not be part of an Egyptian province. These changes in leadership for the Diocese of Egypt. Bishop Mouneer the shape of the Anglican presence in the Middle East and offers a reflection on ‘cultural pride’. North Africa will have implications for JMECA which was Archdeacon Bill Schwartz, with decades of experience in developed from The Jerusalem and the East Mission to Cyprus and the Gulf, has moved from Dubai to take on the cover the whole of the province formed in 1976, and which role of Dean of St Christopher’s Cathedral in Bahrain is now undergoing change. At its last Annual Meeting a in addition to his archdeaconry work. JMECA has made sub-group was established, under the JMECA Chairman, a grant towards the new Church building development Canon Anthony Ball, to consider options once the future beside the Cathedral, so it is good to get his impressions shape is known. Developments will be reported in future of his new role. issues of Bible Lands. William Taylor, one of JMECA’s Trustees, with long Do use this issue for your interest and your prayers – and experience of the Churches of Northern Iraq, writes do visit the new JMECA website www.jmeca.org.uk. about the recent placement of an Iraqi deacon (from the John Clark Chaldean Catholic Church) at St. John’s Notting Hill. Chairman JMECA Standing Committee 3 Diocese of Jerusalem www.j-diocese.org Jerusalem The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, a diocese of the worldwide Anglican Communion, extends over five countries, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Israel, within the Province of Jerusalem and the Archbishop Suheil Dawani Suheil Dawani Archbishop Middle East. There are 27 parishes that minister to the needs of their communities, centered on the Cathedral Church of St. George the Martyr, Syria Lebanon in Jerusalem. The diocese supports 35 institutions, which include hospitals, clinics, kindergartens and schools, vocational training programmes, as Palestine well as institutions for the deaf, the & Israel disabled and the elderly, reaching out to Jordan interfaith neighbours in mutual respect and cooperation. St George’s College, Jerusalem www.saintgeorgescollegejerusalem.com tend to come for Reflections from the dean shorter, intense As I write this article, stints, filling the I note that it is exactly teaching and one year since I arrived leading roles. It at St George’s College is my privilege to to take up my role as lead this talented dean. It has been an and dedicated incredible year of trying group of staff. to get to grips with 2019 has been running an institution a good year for in a complex city in a divided and conflicted land. It the College. We sounds like this might be an overwhelming challenge are anticipating but in reality I have enjoyed every moment. record numbers You cannot join a place like St George’s without being of pilgrims aware of its history and heritage. As it happens, 2020 which is the fruit of the power of word of mouth is the centenary of the College’s original foundation commendations and a more attractive website which so I have been even more conscious of the role the advertises the College and our courses.
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