Translation into Arabic of ecumenical documents

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity [DPCU] is pleased to offer a translation into Arabic of all the dialogue documents of its Eastern Section, as well as of general documents on ecumenism.

The documents of the Eastern Section of the DPCU include those of the Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, and the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East.

The general documents are: Unitatis redintegratio - Decree on Ecumenism of the Second Vatican Council (1964); Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism (1993); Ut unum sint - Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II on Ecumenical Commitment (1995); The Bishop and Christian Unity: Ecumenical Vademecum (2020)

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity hopes that this translation into Arabic will facilitate the reception of these documents by the Churches, particularly in the Middle East.

The translation was coordinated by the Research Center of the Faculty of Religious Sciences of the St. Joseph University of Beirut.

_{Photo : Meeting of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, Lebanon, 2020.}