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A new dream
Middle Eastern reflections on immigration

Noushin Darya Framke, chair for the Advocacy Committee for Racial Ethnic Concerns (ACREC), provides this reflection on her experience in Merida, Mexico. Noushin traveled there in the fall of 2007 with ACREC committee members for a joint meeting with the Advocacy Committee for Women’s Concerns (ACWC). Together they explored and learned about the driving forces behind immigration and the impact on those who immigrate, as well as on the communities they leave behind.

Noushin holds a little girl in one of the palapa homes in the village of Dzan, Mexico. Photo by Tiffany Gonzales.

My husband and I recently celebrated our 25th anniversary.  At a small and packed popular restaurant in New York City, they brought out our dessert with Prosecco on the house and a chocolate inscription around the plate that gave away our celebration to all the tables around us, opening the door for conversation. When the couple next to us said they came from Oklahoma, my husband felt compelled to tell them that I was from Iran, figuring they probably didn’t run into many Iranians in their circle. He was right. He apologized later in the cab, but I knew instantly why he did this.  It was because I have spent my 29 years in America playing the role of ambassador from Iran. [Read more]

A pastoral visit

The Rev. Emile Zaki

General secretary of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Egypt meets with Middle Eastern Presbyterians in the United States

LOUISVILLE – Middle Eastern Presbyterians in the United States got a chance to reconnect with one of their mother churches during a recent visit from the head of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Egypt.

The Rev. Emile Zaki, general secretary of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Egypt, Synod of the Nile, made a “pastoral visit” to Middle Eastern Presbyterians in the U.S. and others over several weeks in October. [Read more]

Middle Eastern Presbyterians in the United States

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Presbyterian Middle Eastern Americans trace the origin of their faith to the apostolic age, and their Reformed roots to Presbyterian missions in the Middle East in the 19th Century. There are currently more than 60 Middle Eastern Presbyterian congregations and fellowships in the United States, worshiping in the Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Farsi and Urdu languages.

The office of Middle Eastern Ministries provides spiritual and organizational services to enhance the ministry of Middle Eastern Presbyterian congregations and fellowships in the United States. Learn more.

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