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  • ANTELIAS: Teny Pirri-Simonian raises rights of Armenians at ecu conf

    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

    TENY PIRRI-SIMONIAN RAISES THE RIGHTS OF THE ARMENIANS
    AT AN ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE

    Within the framework of the Palestine-Israel Forum, the World Council of
    Churches and the Swiss Reformed Churches of Bern, Jura and Solothurn
    organized an International Theological Conference on "Promised Land" New
    Views on Israeli Palestinian Conflict and the Struggle for Land in Modern
    Times, from the 10th to the 14th of September 2008 in Bern. 85 Theologians
    and scholars from all continents were invited to discuss the question of
    land in the Bible. Discussions demonstrated deferent theological views on
    the understanding of the land in the Bible. These diverse views reflected
    the way the Bible has been read and interpreted in specific situations and
    contexts with regard to the Jewish people.

    In order to examine the Biblical understanding of the land in its wider
    meaning, a panel discussed the three cases of Brazil, Palestine and South
    Africa as examples of new struggles for land. Mrs. Teny Pirri-Simonian, who
    represented the Catholicosate of Cilicia at the conference, moderated this
    panel. In her introduction, Mrs. Pirri-Simonian reminded the conference that
    the "promised land" is conditional on the Biblical mandate of abundant life
    built on justice and truthfulness, and that this understanding should show
    the participants that the cases of Brazil, Palestine and South Africa, along
    with the denial of the Armenian genocide and the rights of the Armenians to
    repossess their ancestral land by Turkey, represent both a negation of the
    Biblical promise to the land and a breach of the civil and legal rights of a
    people according to UN conventions.

    The four-day conference ended with the determination to continue the
    reflection on "promised land" both locally and internationally.

    ##
    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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