Middle East

2019: Meeting in Beirut

2022 Gathering in Homs (Syria)

28 April - 1 May 2022 At Christmas 2015, Brother Alois went to Syria, visiting Latakia and Homs. He was very impressed by the hospitality he received at a time when the destruction in the city of Homs was terrible to see. During the international ecumenical youth meeting that took place in Lebanon in March 2019, organised by the Taizé Community in conjunction with the Middle East Council (...)

29 April 2022

2017 Egypt: Photos

4 October 2017

2017 Pilgrimage in Egypt

200 young people came together in Egypt from 26 September to 1 October 2017 at the initiative of Taizé. Half of them came from various cities in the country, and the other half from several countries in the Middle East and Europe. Among the countries represented were Ethiopia, Iraq and Lebanon as well as Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Poland. The main site of the pilgrimage was the (...)

4 October 2017

2016 Christian-Muslim meetings in Lebanon

After having spent two weeks in November 2016 in Egypt, two Taizé brothers continued their journey with a three week visit to Lebanon in November and the beginning of December. Among the many wonderful meetings they had during their stay in Lebanon, here a brother tells of a meeting in Tripoli, a town in northern Lebanon, with Muslim and Christian leaders."Tripoli is known in Lebanon as a town (...)

18 February 2017