ANTELIAS: Visitors and Meetings with His Holiness Aram I

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Visitors and Meetings with His Holiness Aram I

Antelias – On Wednesday 2 July 2014, the Chairperson of the Tekeyan
Cultural Association, the Committee of Founders, former member of
Parliament, Hagop Kassardjian, and Michael Vahejian, Chairperson of the
Lebanon Branch of the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party, Ramgavar, visited
His Holiness Aram I to congratulate him and present their good wishes on the
19th anniversary celebration of his election as Catholicos of the Holy See
of Cilicia.

They discussed the situation in Lebanon, other matters affecting the
region and the 100th anniversary commemoration of the Armenian Genocide.

On Thursday 3 July 2014, the Catholicos received the separate visits of
Parliamentarians Hagop Pakradouni and Jean Oghassabian. Both members of the
Lebanese Parliament discussed the process of electing the new President of
Lebanon.

Later in the day, His Holiness Aram I received composer Robert
Amirkhanian; the committee of the Hamazkayin Cultural Association
accompanied the composer. Mr Amirkhanian and the Catholicos discussed the
situation of artists and cultural life in Armenia.

At the end of the week, Dr. Alexi Mukarzel met with His Holiness Aram I
and gave him a letter of invitation to a conference to be held in Washington
in September 2014 on the conflict in the Middle East and the Challenges to
Christians in the region.

The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches begins its
Post-10th Assembly deliberations

Antelias – 2 July 2014. The representatives of the two Holy Sees of the
Armenian Orthodox Church (the Holy See of Cilicia and the Holy See of
Etchmiadzin) are participating in the meetings of the Central Committee.

Archbishop Nareg Alemezian, Director of Ecumenical Relations, and Ms Teny
Simonian, Ecumenical Representative in Europe, are representing the Holy See
of Cilicia, and Archbishop Vicken Aykazian and Ms Paola Der Mateossian are
representing the Holy See of Etchmiadzin.

The members of the Central Committee received the reports of the
Moderator, Dr. Agnes Abuom and the General Secretary, Rev Dr. Olav Fykse
Tveit; it will continue its deliberations in Committees. Archbishop Nareg is
a member of the Programme Committee and Ms Simonian is a member of the
Policy Reference Committee.

The Assembly will also discuss the document, “An Invitation to the
Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace,” which will provide the theological
framework for the Council’s programmatic work.

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