Revd Dr Habib Badr's Visit to the UK as the first TFCC Fellow
The Revd Dr Habib Badr, Chairman of TFCC Middle East in Beirut visited the UK in January 2008. He spoke on "The Culture of Death" at Holy Trinity Sloane Square in London on 16th January to an audience of 121, to staff and students at the Bible College of Wales in Swansea on the 17th, and at the Chapter House of St. Albans Cathedral on 19th January. On 20th January, Habib returned to Beirut.
"The Culture of Death" was a fascinating and thought-provoking insight into the minds of modern martyrs in the Middle East and in the wider World. Habib is the first TFCC Fellow. The TFCC Fellowship is a programme set up by TFCC to bring Middle Eastern advocates to the West so that they may be heard and so that we may learn from them.
At the end of the lecture at Holy Trinity Sloane Square, Habib was presented with his Certificate of Fellowship and the very first Fellow's TFCC Cross.We should like to congratulate Habib for his ground-breaking work and to thank him for his enormous contribution to TFCC's success.
Please click HERE to download a digest of Habib's lecture.
A video of Habib's Lecture (highlights) appears below!
Second TFCC International Consultants Conference, Aleppo, June 2007
H.E. Metropolitan Paul Yazegy addresses the Conference.
The conference was a great success, bringing together TFCC's supporters from America, the UK and the Middle East. This was a wonderful opportunity for people from the West to experience the Middle East from themselves; thanks to the generous support of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo and the Armenian Evangelical Church, and the warm welcome from the people of Syria, our delegates returned home filled with happy memories and a much deeper understanding of the land and its citizens.
Delegates from East and West at the Conference
As a result of presentations given at the conference by Father Nadim Nassar, Huda Nassar, Revd Serop Megerditchian, Revd Fa'eq Haddad and HE the Metropolitan of Aleppo, a new plan of action is now in place to help support Christians in the Middle East and to publicise their plight.
After the conference, a band of intrepid pilgrims -- including quite a few from Holy Trinity Church London and St. Paul's K Street in Washington DC -- visited the great historical and religious sites of Syria, including Damascus, Aleppo, the ancient city of Palmyra, Lattakia, and Krak des Chevaliers. This was a rare chance to walk in the footsteps of St. Paul and to experience Christianity in its original and most fascinating context.
