Study Day 28 February: Christianity in the Middle East - Tantur and the Heythrop Centre for Eastern Christianity

"Christianity in the Middle East: present challenges and future possibilities"

Jointly convened by the British Trust for Tantur and the Centre for Eastern Christianity

Saturday 28th February 2015 , at University of Notre Dame London Centre, 1 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG (off Trafalgar Square)

10.30 arrivals and coffee and registration. From 11 am to 1 pm

• Bishop Antoine Audo SJ Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, Syria: Christianity in the Middle East: Present Challenges and Future Possibilities read through the Experience of Syria
• Response by Dr Suha Rassam
• Mariz Tadros University of Sussex: Coptic Christianity in Egypt Today

Lunch break (bring your own packed lunch, hot drinks provided), from 1-45 pm to 4-15 pm

• Revd Vrej Nersessian (Former Curator of Eastern Christian Collection The British Library): The Armenian Christian Tradition: history, theology and ecclesiology
• Anthony O’Mahony (Heythrop College, University of London): Christian Ecumenism in the Middle East past, present and future challenges to the Global Church
• Any Questions: panel with the speakers

All are welcome: For practical planning we need people to fill in an application form from the Tantur website and return with £5 cheque made out to The British Trust for Tantur and sent to the Right Revd John Went, The Rectory, Latimer, Chesham, Bucks HP5 1UA. Website: http://www.tanturbritishtrust.org.uk/2015/01/conference-invitation-christianity-middle-east-present-challenges-future-possibilities/