Syndesmos Speeches

Albert Laham, former president of Syndesmos. (July 2003)     “It is a great fortune to have a Primate of Orthodoxy coming from the Missionary field”     – Albert Laham, of the Patriarchate of Antioch, former Vice President from 1958-1964 and former President of Syndesmos from 1964-1977.     The youth movement of the Patriarchate of Antioch has its beginnings…

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Chambesy, Switzerland, 06/04/1995 When Ann asked you to give one word, one word for me was joy. Joy is the heart overflowing with love of the Lord and love of the brothers. And in many places St Paul says, “be joyful” and again I tell you “be joyful”. The message of Orthodoxy is a message…

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8th General Assembly ‘Worship in a Secular Age’, Boston, USA. 18/07-24/07 1971 Albert Laham 18 July […] Conclusion  Your Eminence, in this meeting of SYNDESMOS, I will be personally finishing two terms as President, and two terms as vice-president and I think it will be time for me to retire from active services of SYNDESMOS.…

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Introductory message to the report of the VIIth SYNDESMOS General Assembly Rattvik, Sweden, 21-27 July 1968 Albert Laham Albert Laham from Lebanon played a role in the first contacts between the Orthodox youth movement MJO of Antioch and youth movements in Europe from 1946. Between 1964 and 1977 he served as the President of SYNDESMOS,…

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