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PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Watch our latest videos on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HolySeeOfCilicia
THE CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA INVITED TO THE CONFERENCE ON CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM
DIALOGUE IN DAMASCUS
Recently the Minister of Religious Affairs of Syria and the Greek Catholic
Patriarchate organized a meeting to discuss the recent The Vatican Synod on
the Middle East and its official message. The meeting was held in Damascus
with the participation of around one thousand persons.
His Holiness Aram I could not attend the meeting personally, but he sent a
delegation of three persons, consisting of His Eminence Archbishop Sebouh
Sarkissian, Prelate of Tehran (Iran), His Grace Bishop Shahan Sarkissian,
Prelate of Peria (Syria) and Mr. Mesrob Shirinian, to represent him.
Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian greeted the conference and welcomed the
initiative in the name of Catholicos Aram I, and hoped that the meeting
would give a new impulse to Christian-Muslim dialogue. He then continued,
"His Holiness Aram I continually reminds dialogue partners of the urgency of
cooperation along with dialogue meetings". The Archbishop then described the
commitment of the Catholicosate of Cilicia to interreligious dialogue, and
said, "During the fifteen years when His Holiness Aram I was Moderator of
the World Council of Churches, and currently as a President of the Middle
East Council of Churches, he persistently reminds the ecumenical community
of the importance of existential dialogue." Archbishop Sebouh concluded his
speech by describing the Armenian diaspora and the existential dialogue of
Armenians with their host neighbours, particularly in the Middle East for
many centuries as a vivid example of this commitment of the Catholicosate.
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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.
From: A. Papazian
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Watch our latest videos on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HolySeeOfCilicia
THE CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA INVITED TO THE CONFERENCE ON CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM
DIALOGUE IN DAMASCUS
Recently the Minister of Religious Affairs of Syria and the Greek Catholic
Patriarchate organized a meeting to discuss the recent The Vatican Synod on
the Middle East and its official message. The meeting was held in Damascus
with the participation of around one thousand persons.
His Holiness Aram I could not attend the meeting personally, but he sent a
delegation of three persons, consisting of His Eminence Archbishop Sebouh
Sarkissian, Prelate of Tehran (Iran), His Grace Bishop Shahan Sarkissian,
Prelate of Peria (Syria) and Mr. Mesrob Shirinian, to represent him.
Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian greeted the conference and welcomed the
initiative in the name of Catholicos Aram I, and hoped that the meeting
would give a new impulse to Christian-Muslim dialogue. He then continued,
"His Holiness Aram I continually reminds dialogue partners of the urgency of
cooperation along with dialogue meetings". The Archbishop then described the
commitment of the Catholicosate of Cilicia to interreligious dialogue, and
said, "During the fifteen years when His Holiness Aram I was Moderator of
the World Council of Churches, and currently as a President of the Middle
East Council of Churches, he persistently reminds the ecumenical community
of the importance of existential dialogue." Archbishop Sebouh concluded his
speech by describing the Armenian diaspora and the existential dialogue of
Armenians with their host neighbours, particularly in the Middle East for
many centuries as a vivid example of this commitment of the Catholicosate.
##
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.
From: A. Papazian