PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
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Antelias-Lebanon
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THE BOARD OF ARMENOFAS SWISS-ARMENIAN FOUNDATION MEETS IN ATHENS
The annual meeting of the Board was held in Kokinia near Athens at the
Armenian Home for the Elderly, 6-9 May 2010. The Fund was created when
members of the Reformed Church of Switzerland collected money to help the
survivors of the Armenian Genocide. Several years later, the Inter-Church
Aid Commission of the Swiss Churches (HEKS/EPER) established a Foundation
and donated it to the Catholicosate of Cilicia so that they might take care
of the surviving elderly who had no family, as well as respond to the new
needs of the Catholicosate in its diakonal mission. As a sign of this
church-to-church solidarity, the Board consists of representatives of the
Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches and the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
The current President is. Teny Pirri-Simonian and the Vice-President Me.
François Payot.
Despite the crisis in Greece, and the world economic difficulties, the Board
appreciated the effort of the Armenian Prelacy of Greece in making the Home
self -supporting. The next meeting of the Board will be held in Antelias.
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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 history and
the mission 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.