You are invited to a service of Choral Evensong and a ticketed Reception which will follow in honor of the Reverend Canon Faiz Basheer Jerjes, MBE, Rector of St. George’s Anglican Episcopal Church in Baghdad, Iraq.
Our regularly scheduled Choral Evensong will take place on Tuesday May 23rd at 5:30pm in Saint Thomas Church (1 West 53rd Street) and the Reception will begin after the service in Andrew Hall.
Tickets are $25 and may be purchased online. The Reception will include a short presentation by Canon Faiz, and donations to St. George’s will be welcome during the reception, via QR code or check.
Canon Faiz is Iraq’s only ordained Anglican priest, and he is the first Iraqi national to be ordained as an Anglican priest. He has been a leader in interfaith dialogue initiatives in Iraq, and has been instrumental in assisting Internally Displaced People, following the devastation caused by ISIS in the traditional Iraqi Christian heartland of Mosul and the Nineveh Plains.
St. George’s was founded in 1864 and is the only Anglican church in Iraq. St. George’s also operates a nursery and elementary school, as well as a medical clinic, which has 17 staff members and treats 1,500 patients free of charge each month.
Canon Faiz’s visit to the U.S. is sponsored by Stand With Iraqi Christians, an Episcopal charity based in Radnor, PA, whose mission is to offer friendship and financial assistance to Iraqi Christians working to restore peace and rebuild their communities.
