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Catholicosate of Cilicia
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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I WELCOMES THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
BILL 306 ON CHURCH PROPERTY
On Wednesday 14 December 2011, in an interview with Yerkir Media Television
in Armenia, His Holiness Aram I said, “The House Resolution 306 ‘urging the
Republic of Turkey to safeguard its Christian heritage and to return
confiscated church properties’, challenges not only Turkey’s failure to
respect the Armenian, Greek, Assyrian and Syriac Church properties, but also
the freedom of religious prayer and education. This is a major step towards
the just solution of the Armenian Genocide.”
While recognizing the important effort of different organizations within the
Armenian community towards this end, he cautioned them on the use of the
word compensation as one of the demands of the victims of the Genocide,
because he said, “The U.N. Commission on Human Right has recognized the
interests of the victims of violations of International Humanitarian Law
(IHL) in five forms of reparation: Restitution, compensation,
rehabilitation, just satisfaction, and guarantee of non-repetition. We
should state clearly our demands within the IHL. The Catholicosate of
Cilicia is organizing an experts’ meeting to this effect, to be held in
February 2012 in Antelias.”
In the end of the interview, His Holiness Aram I thanked the Armenian
National Committee (Hay Tad) for its close collaboration with the
Catholicosate of Cilicia in the past decades, in advocating for the Just
Cause of the Armenian people.
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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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress