Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Karekin II, Catholicos Of All Armenians Leaves For Moscow

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Karekin II, Catholicos Of All Armenians Leaves For Moscow

    KAREKIN II, CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS LEAVES FOR MOSCOW

    AZG Armenian Daily
    05/07/2006

    Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II left for Moscow, Monday,
    to attend World Summit of Religious Leaders to be held at Moscow
    President Hotel July 3-5.

    Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin press-service informed that the
    delegation of the Supreme Priesthood of the Armenian Apostolic Church
    (AAC), comprises also Leader of AAC Greek Diocese Archbishop Voskan
    Galpakyan, Leader of AAC Artsakh Diocese Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan,
    Mother See of Etchmiadzin Inter-confessional Ties Executive Archbishop
    Yeznik Petrosyan, a member of Supreme Spiritual Council, Judge of
    RA Constitutional Court Rafael Papayan, as well as Bishop Vigen
    Haikazyan. The latter will participate in the Summit as the head of
    the National Council of Churches of USA.

    Russian media report that over 100 Christian, Muslim, Buddhist,
    Induist and Judaist leaders from Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia,
    Albania, Bahrein, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Egypt,
    Israel, India, Iran, Italy, China, Romania, Syria, the US, Finland
    and Switzerland will discuss the role of faith and religion in
    modern society, ways to protect spiritual and moral values in the
    modern world, to fight terrorism and extremism, problems of religious
    education, support of family, gender equality and human rights, ways to
    reduce poverty, to protect environment, to fight drugs trafficking,
    diseases and mass proliferation of arms, to ensure dialogue of
    civilizations and religious communities, problems of globalization.

    The summit is organized by the Russian Orthodox Church and the
    Russian authorities.
Working...
X