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  • ANTELIAS: Lambeth Conf. participants received by HM Queen Elizabeth

    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

    THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND RECEIVES THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE

    The participants in the meeting of the Bishops of the Anglican Church were
    welcomed on July 24 by Queen Elizabeth II of England in her official
    residence in the Buckingham Palace in London.

    Some 1500 participants and guests participated that morning in the march
    organized by the Spiritual Head of the Anglican Church, the Archbishop of
    Canterbury Rowan Williams aimed at directing the attention of world leaders
    towards poverty reduction.

    Around noon the participants visited the headquarters of the Anglican
    Archbishop, Lambeth Palace, where they held a meeting with the Prime
    Minister of England, Gordon Brown, and had lunch with the Archbishop.

    The meetings were convened regularly on July 21-26 parallel to morning and
    evening services, Bible readings from the Gospel of John, and group
    discussions. The latter included such topics as the Bishop and the Anglican
    identity, the Bishop as a preacher of the Gospel, the Bishop as the defender
    of social justice, the Bishop and the Ecumenical Movement and the Bishop and
    the protection of the environment. The themes of the full sessions were:
    evangelism in the 21st century and its mission, social justice and
    evangelism.

    The delegate of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, Bishop Nareg, actively
    participated in the sessions and held important meetings with various guests
    representing important churches and ecumenical organizations.

    During discussions on the issue of refugees in his working group, Bishop
    Nareg talked about the Armenian Genocide and underlined the importance of
    justice and restoring the rights of the Armenian nation. Talking about the
    Middle East, Bishop Nareg stressed the need for stable peace in the region
    for a continued and effective Christian existence.

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    The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
    the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the Ecumenical
    activities of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
    the Catholicosate, http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org The Cilician
    Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
    Antelias, Lebanon.
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