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  • ANTELIAS: His Holiness Aram I receives the director of WCC programme

    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 RECEIVES THE DIRECTOR OF WCC PROGRAMME
    ON INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION

    On February 27, His Holiness Aram I received the Director of the World
    Council of Churches' (WCC) programme on Inter-religious dialogue and
    cooperation, Dr. Shanta Premawardhana, and Dr. Rima Barsoum who is in charge
    of Christian-Muslim dialogue in the same department. The Catholicosate of
    Cilicia's Ecumenical Officer, Bishop Nareg Alemezian also attended the
    meeting.

    This important WCC department is dedicated to enhancing dialogue between
    religions and is one of the major areas of the Council's activities. Dr.
    Premawardhana informed the Catholicos about the department's activities and
    future plans. His Holiness emphasized the vital importance of
    inter-religious dialogue in a world where religions are living together as
    neighbors. His Holiness stressed the need for the WCC to give a priority
    attention within its programmatic framework to all issues and concerns which
    are related to the area of inter-religious dialogue.

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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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