![]() The service is introduced by Pastor Rima Nasrallah van Saane and Pastor Habib Badr. ![]() It’s ten past eight and time now for Sunday Worship which today comes from Beirut. Opening announcement spoken by the Radio 4 Continuity announcer:īBC Radio 4. Sunday Worship - Sunday 1st August - From National Evangelical Church of Beirut Leaders: Pastor Habib Badr and Dr Rima Nasrallah van Saane of Beirut’s Near East School of Theology. It was a really bitter sweet time - a revolutionary day in Lebanese history." Yet this is a nation with very limited electric power and almost no fuel, its economy crashed and people 'fighting over a roll of bread' With musical contributions from the ancient roots of Christianity in the East still found just metres from the explosion: the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Maronite, Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches, and the Armenian Catholic Church."We cling to our faith". We saw how there were Muslims cleaning churches and Christians cleaning mosques. For the first time in history, the Lebanese were unified, there was no religion or sectarian root, just the Lebanese people trying to help in any way possible. "One year later we invite you to pray with us as we lift up our country and its people before the lord. ![]() Sunday Worship comes from the National Evangelical Church of Beirut, the oldest Arabic speaking Protestant church in the Middle East, less than a kilometre from the explosion's epicentre. On 4th August 2020, a nuclear sized double explosion at Beirut port killed around 200 people, injuring more than 6000 and displacing 300 000.
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