PRESS RELEASE
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Information Services
Address: Vagharshapat, Republic of Armenia
Contact: Rev. Fr. Ktrij Devejian
Tel: (374 1) 517 163
Fax: (374 1) 517 301
E-Mail: [email protected]
December 8, 2004
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin Issues Statement on Church Bombings
in Iraq
The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin is greatly troubled to learn from
the Armenian Diocese of Damascus, that Armenian and Chaldean churches
were attacked and bombed yesterday in Mosul, Iraq.
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All
Armenians, condemns these terrorist attacks on the churches in Iraq
and their endangerment of the peaceful centuries-old coexistence of
Christian and Muslim peoples. Regarding Iraq’s political crisis,
His Holiness appeals to the country’s Christian and Muslim leaders and
people to display willingness and understanding in halting the danger
of the conflict being categorized as a religious one. The Catholicos
of All Armenians calls upon spiritual leaders and faithful to work
together in brotherly love to reestablish the natural inter-faith
and social life of Iraq.
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