PROFILE
ROLA Sleiman is an accidental trailblazer. In simply seeking to serve God, she didn’t ask and never hoped to be the first female Christian minister to be ordained in the Middle East.
“If you’d asked me 10 years ago, would there be a female pastor in the Middle East, I would have said maybe in 100 years,” she says. “It was impossible. We are living in a patriarchal society where a woman is not treated equally in any profession.