Overview of November 30:
While in the city of Damascus the journeymen have audiences with several of the patriarchs of the Eastern Church. Today the journeymen meet with his Holiness Patriarch Zakka Iwas the first of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and all of the East. Afterword they are also honored with an audience with his Eminence Sheikh Ahmad Keftaro, Grand Mufti, or spiritual leader, of Syria. After dinner they join an ecumenical meeting with the National Evangelical Church of Syria.