The Challenges of a Common Catechesis in the Middle East
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Vol 65 No 1-2 (2015), Articles – Églises en dialogue
Vol 65 No 1-2 (2015)

The Challenges of a Common Catechesis in the Middle East

Articles – Églises en dialogue
Published 20 May 2015
Gabriel HACHEM

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HACHEM, G. (2015). The Challenges of a Common Catechesis in the Middle East. Proche-Orient Chrétien, 65(1-2), 59-73. Retrieved from https://journals.usj.edu.lb/poc/article/view/1267
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Abstract

The Council of the Catholic Patriarchs in the Middle East (CPCO), launched together with the Syriac and Greek orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch in 1996 the ecumenical project of a common catechesis in Lebanon. The author relates in his article the genesis, the vicissitudes and the stakes of this project. He also shows its theological and ecclesiological foundations before précising the challenges and the perspectives of the future.
Notwithstanding the ecumenical and catechetical interest the project offers, it is until now far from meeting a unanimous reception of the different Churches or of the educational establishments. However it can constitute a promising model for the service of the new evangelization and the Christian presence in this region of the world.