What I am writing now is not only a personal revelation, but a human message in the form of a personal revelation, and its occasion relates to a personal friend and Christian cleric, Father Milad Jawish. I have a special friendship for years with Father Milad Jawish, a Catholic clergyman from Lebanon who used to live in Brussels as pastor of an oriental church in it. He is a well-educated person who holds a doctorate, writes books and loves Rahabna, Fairuz and Lebanon with all its details without exception.
I would often send him a text message, beginning with the phrase “Our Father who is in Brussels.” He would respond lightly to it and invite me, in my long weary hours, to lectures or cultural activities in the Church of St. John Chrysostom, which he patronized. This esteemed theologian.
In one of the activities years ago, he told me that he would give an evening lecture to introduce the Protestant doctrine, and because I asked him a lot about Christian sects and groups, he decided to invite me to attend. Type.
After the lecture, there was a dignified presence of Iraqi Christians, who have suffered terror and horrific horrors from the terrorist gangs of ISIS, and have fled with their religion and their lives to the world’s exiles, leaving their homeland for looting, ruin and corruption.
In an angry intervention by a generous Iraqi woman whose wound seems not to have healed yet, she was subjected to an unfinished abuse of Muslims in the Arab world due to a decisive and firm boycott of Father Milad, in which he refused to offend anyone in his religion, and the audience entered into a heated discussion with the father in which the educated theologian led the open-minded son of Lebanon Everyone to the categorical point that religion is for God and this world is for everyone.
I do not doubt for a moment the sincerity of Father Milad, and he was the one who during the hours of transparent disclosure between me and him in our “rabbinic” sessions, he would ask me about my mother, and see in her faith, according to my description of her and her amazing human mysticism, a pure and pure faith that impresses him as a religious man.
Father Milad, who, after his church service in Brussels, moved to his country of Lebanon, specifically in the village of Mieh and Mieh, once told me that from the core of his faith he sees in all human beings the children of God, and that the Lord is the Creator and Shepherd of all without exception.
A few days later, a ceremony will be held in Lebanon for the ordination of this respected man as a bishop of the Roman Catholic parish in Canada, which is a worthy elevation for a man like Father Milad.
Well, why am I writing about it today?
I am writing about it because I am in the UAE now, a pilgrimage to “human tolerance” in the world, and my presence there coincided with a human presence that transcends borders, races and beliefs, to visit Expo 2020.
And I remember that in 2019, when His Holiness Pope Francis visited the UAE, which announced its global initiative through the Year of Tolerance, Father Milad was one of the most joyful in this bridge, in which he saw “normalization” with the healthy and recovering humanity as he described it, and a return to what can be described as one humanity that refuses to be excluded. .
I am writing about it here in Al-Ittihad, because a platform like this only accommodates a human revelation, which is narrowed by platforms that are full of exclusion in our Arab world.
Jordanian writer – Belgium
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