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    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.cathcil.org/

    PO Box 70 317
    Antelias-Lebanon

    Armenian version: http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Armenian.htm


    THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF MECC IN ANTELIAS

    The General Secretary of MECC Dr. Gerges Saleh met with His Holiness
    Aram I on Monday 13 March 2006 in his residence in the headquarters
    of the Armenian Catholicosate. In this meeting, which precedes the
    meeting of the Executive Committee of MECC, among several issues,
    the restructuring of Council, Council-member churches relations,
    and Christian-Muslim dialogue were given a particular attention.

    His Holiness Aram I shared with the General Secretary the following
    perspectives:

    1- The restructuring of the MECC is a must. In this process, the new
    realities of the region and the concerns and needs of the churches
    must be taken seriously into account. The churches must become fully
    part of this process.

    2- Ecumenical partnership with the western churches, ecumenical
    organizations and partners is vital for the Council in many
    respects. We need to deepen and enlarge the scope of this
    partnership. However the particularity and integrity of our ecumenical
    work must be clearly spelled out by establishing our own priorities,
    our own methodologies and our own way of organizing the ecumenical
    life and work in the Middle East.

    3- The Christian-Muslim dialogue must remain a major area of priority
    concern. The Council must organize the dialogue in a way that member
    churches are directly engaged in this important process.

    His Holiness Aram I also met Mr. Gaby Habib, the former General
    Secretary of MECC. Actually, Mr. Habib resides in Washington and he is
    engaged in ecumenical activities, particularly with those communities
    and churches who have their headquarters in the Middle East. His
    Holiness emphasized the importance of deepening the collaboration
    between the churches of the Middle East and the USA in general, and
    the Orthodox churches in particular. His Holiness welcomed the new
    ecumenical process namely, Acting Churches Together in the USA. He
    said that all the churches of the USA must take part in this process
    and in all ecumenical initiatives and actions. Ecumenism should be
    an open space for all churches. Otherwise, ecumenism is used for
    non-ecumenical purposes.

    ##

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

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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