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  • ANTELIAS: HH Aram I's representative holds ecumenical meetings in NY

    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.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/

    PO Box 70 317
    Antelias-Lebanon

    Armenian version: http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/v04/doc/Arme nian.htm

    HIS HOLINESS ARAM I'S REPRESENTATIVE HOLDS ECUMENICAL MEETINGS IN NEW YORK


    The Ecumenical Officer of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, Bishop Nareg
    Alemezian, held a number of important ecumenical meetings in New York on
    July 23.

    Bishop Alemezian and Bishop Anoushavan Tanyelian (Ecumenical Officer of the
    Prelacies of the United States) visited the headquarters of the Global
    Church Service humanitarian organization, where they had a meeting with its
    senior officials. Bishop Nareg then delivered a lecture on "The presence of
    Christianity in the Middle East". He talked about the Catholicosate of
    Cilicia's role in inter-faith and inter-church relations. Representatives
    from the United Nations, World Council of Churches, American Council of
    Churches, Global Church Service and other local ecumenical organizations
    attended the lecture.

    A meeting was held the same afternoon with Rev. Fr. Leonid Kitchgovski
    (Ecumenical Officer of the American Orthodox Church). Various ecumenical
    issues were discussed. Archbishop Oshagan Cholyan (Primate of the Eastern
    Prelacy of the United States) also attended the meeting.

    Archbishop Choloyan, and Bishops Alemezian and Tanyelian later visited the
    General Secretary of the "Religions for Peace" inter-faith organization, Dr.
    William Vendel. They underlined the importance of peace and the protection
    of human rights. His Holiness Aram I is one of the honorary presidents of
    this international organization.

    Responding to the questions addressed to him during the three meetings,
    Bishop Alemezian provided detailed explanations of the reconciliation
    recently achieved between the Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox Churches as a
    result of His Holiness Aram I's efforts.
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