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  • ANTELIAS: Sunday Schools participates in lecture on fighting drugs

    PRESS RELEASE
    Catholicosate of Cilicia
    Communication and Information Department
    Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
    Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
    Fax: (04) 419724
    E- mail: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.cathcil.org/

    PO Box 70 317
    Antelias-Lebanon

    Armenian version: http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Armenian.htm


    THE ARMENIAN CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOLS ADMINISTRATION PARTICIPATES IN THE
    LECTURE ON FIGHTING AGAINST DRUGS

    Haigazian University hosted, on March 30, a lecture aimed at exchanging
    viewpoints on fighting against drug addiction. The event was organized by
    the Armenian HORIZON Drug Free Zone, which was established in June 2006.

    The administration of the Armenian Church's Sunday Schools delegated Rev.
    Fr. Torkom Donoyan (director of the Sunday Schools) and Krikor Allozian (a
    member of the Armenian Church's Christian Education committee) to
    participate in the event on its behalf.

    Rev. Fr. Torkom participated in the discussions saying: "the detrimental
    phenomenon of drug addiction is an international problem. Spread all around
    the world, it particularly entraps the youth. All the structures of our
    community- families, schools, churches, clubs and union- have their role in
    preventing drug addiction. But the first of these, the family, has the
    primary role in this context, because as His Holiness Aram I stated on the
    occasion of the Year of the Armenian Family, a family is our first school
    and church, it is the first station of the formation of children."

    Several viewpoints were expressed on preventing this destructive
    addiction, specially in an environment based on family values like that of
    the Lebanese Armenian community.

    The lecture and the following discussions ended at 8:30 in the evening.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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