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:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version: nian.htm
CATHOLICOS ARAM I AND PATRIARCH PAULOS ADDRESS
THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONVENING IN ANTELIAS
The international conference convening in the Antelias headquarters of the
Catholicosate of Cilicia interrupted its activities temporarily to receive
His Holiness Aram I and the Head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, His
Holiness Patriarch Paulos.
Patriarch Paulos, who is one of the Presidents of the World Council of
Churches, also addressed the conference. He had come for one day to Antelias
to visit His Holiness Aram I to express his gratitude to the Armenian
Pontiff for his key role in the reconciliation between the Coptic and
Ethiopian Churches.
His Holiness Aram I welcomed Patriarch Paulos. Emphasizing the importance of
the conference, the Catholicos underlined the negative impact of mass
migration on society.
Making the voices of the agonized African people heard, Patriarch Paulos
stressed the important role of religion for an adequate life standard for
the society. He also talked about those factors, economic stabilization,
justice and peace, the combination of which could lead to a halt of the
undesired phenomenon of migration.
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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, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.