On Tuesday, December 19, 2023, at the invitation of the Latin Ecclesiastical First Instance Court in Amman, the lawyers who were accepted to practise their duties by the Latin Ecclesiastical Courts in Jordan took the oath, and received their certificates that entitle them to perform their duties, before His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa,  Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

During the ceremony, held at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Airport Road in Amman, new president of the Court of First Instance, Fr. Dr. Aktham Hijazin, as well as employees of the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeals, also took the oath, in the presence of the Latin Patriarchal Vicar for Jordan Bishop Jamal D’aibes, priests and nuns.

In his address, Patriarch Pizzaballa noted that taking the oath means that lawyers and employees have become cooperators with the Church’s pastoral mission. He added that people who come to the Ecclesiastical Court carry with them the miseries of life, and therefore the courts deal with the suffering groups of society. He stressed that duties of the lawyers should not be based on exploiting these situations, but rather by cooperating in order to solve them, as the goal of the ecclesiastical court is to rebuild a healthy state of the agonizing reality.

Later, President of the Court of First Instance, Fr. Aktham Hijazin, took the oath and was followed by the employees of the ecclesiastical courts, namely Mr. Rami Raji Haddadin, clerk and director of the court; Miss Eliana Fouad Hijazin, clerk and secretary, Mrs. Enas Safwan Haddadin, clerk and secretary at the Court of Appeal, and Mr. Mansour Sami Rihani, accountant and treasurer.

Then, the accredited practising lawyers, took the oath before His Beatitude the Patriarch Pizzaballa, namely Adeeb Muzawid Hawatmeh, Khaldoun Shibli Salaita, Raed Zaki Al-Amarin, Rula Sami Handal, Zuhair Fayez Salayta, Suha George Innab, Tariq Tawfiq Hijazin, Furat Na’el Hamarneh, Lina Malek Khader, Nazem Abdul Masih Ni’mah, Nada Munir Wir, Haitham Salem I’aifij, Ya’qoub Nadhir Al-Far.

After taking the oath, the lawyers received their certificates from Patriarch Pizzaballa, which was followed by a dinner.