Yesterday evening, a major earthquake struck the province of Al Haouz in Morocco, killing more than a thousand people in the provinces and prefectures of Al Haouz, Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Azilal, Chichaoua and Taroudant. The earthquake also injured 1,200 people. The provisional toll bears witness to the seriousness of this natural disaster, which has plunged many Moroccan families into mourning. On…
From 5-10 July 2022 the Secretary General of OIEC paid a visit to the SGEC-L, the Lebanese member of OIEC. There he noted that despite an extremely severe crisis in Lebanon, comparable to the effects of a war, the resilient Catholic schools are courageously continuing their work. In particular the teachers of Catholic schools are making enormous sacrifices to keep…
As every year, the OIEC region MENA held its annual general meeting. This year, the meeting took place from 8 to 13 October in Amman, Jordan, at the Sisters of the Rosary. All the countries in the region were represented, including Djibouti and Turkey, who joined the MENA in 2017. Each country was able, through its national representative, to share…
From March 24th to 26th, the CEEC brought together it s General Assembly in Tirana, Albania. It was an opportunity for the National Commission for Catholic Education in Albania (Komisioni Kombetar i Edukimit Katolik Shqiptar, KKEKSH) to fully integrate in the activities of the CEEC and to manifest its existence as a national organisation for catholic teaching in Albania. Albania…
From 19 to 22 October was held in Cairo (Egypt) the General Assembly of the MENA. This assembly has been opened by its gratitude the Patriarch of Alexandria, Mgr Ibrahim. The National Secretaries of Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan were present. Were excused the National Secretaries of Palestine and the Holy Land, prevented for visa problems. At this meeting,…
A delegation of the OIEC, including composed of the vice-president of the OIEC (Mgr Antonios Kalta), the Secretary General of the OIEC (Philippe Richard), of the Regional Secretary MENA, (Father Boutros azar), and of the National Secretaries of Morocco (Father Marc Boucrot), Tunisia (Father Jawad Alamat) was received on 19 October 2016 at the headquarters of the Arab League in…