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BOTH ARMENIAN CATHOLICI EXPRESS THEIR SUPPORT TO NEW PRESIDENT
ARMENPRESS
April 21, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 21, ARMENPRESS: Head of the Armenian Apostolic Church,
His Holiness Karekin II, seated in the Holy Mother See of Etchmiadzin
and Catholicos Aram I, head of the second Armenian Catholicosate in
Antelias, Lebanon, paid a visit today to Armenian president Serzh
Sarkisian.
The government press office quoted Catholicos Aram I as saying
that due to concourse of circumstances he was unable to attend the
inauguration ceremony of Serzh Sarkisian. He said he arrived in Armenia
to congratulate personally president Serzh Sarkisian and express his
support for him.
"The Church and homeland, the faith and Armenians are a single whole
and we have to work within this frameworks," he was quoted as saying.
Catholicos Karekin II was quoted as saying that the pace of the new
government will yield its results some time later and the people
will see that concrete and targeted steps are being made to build a
homeland desired and anticipated by all.
President Serzh Sarkisian said with the support of both Catholici one
can do a lot and archive a lot. He praised the role of the Church in
the life of Armenians saying it adopted some of government functions
for a millennium when Armenians were deprived of their sovereign state.
Sarkisian said the government will continue its support to the Church
to help it become stronger adding also that the Armenian Church
should continue to remain a foundation stone of the Armenian spirit
and Armenian identity.
Both Catholici expressed hope that president Serzh Sarkisian will
work devotedly and with great responsibility to continue to serve the
nation and its ultimate interests. They also expressed their readiness
to help implement all good initiatives and ideas which the president
has to take the country forward.
ARMENPRESS
April 21, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 21, ARMENPRESS: Head of the Armenian Apostolic Church,
His Holiness Karekin II, seated in the Holy Mother See of Etchmiadzin
and Catholicos Aram I, head of the second Armenian Catholicosate in
Antelias, Lebanon, paid a visit today to Armenian president Serzh
Sarkisian.
The government press office quoted Catholicos Aram I as saying
that due to concourse of circumstances he was unable to attend the
inauguration ceremony of Serzh Sarkisian. He said he arrived in Armenia
to congratulate personally president Serzh Sarkisian and express his
support for him.
"The Church and homeland, the faith and Armenians are a single whole
and we have to work within this frameworks," he was quoted as saying.
Catholicos Karekin II was quoted as saying that the pace of the new
government will yield its results some time later and the people
will see that concrete and targeted steps are being made to build a
homeland desired and anticipated by all.
President Serzh Sarkisian said with the support of both Catholici one
can do a lot and archive a lot. He praised the role of the Church in
the life of Armenians saying it adopted some of government functions
for a millennium when Armenians were deprived of their sovereign state.
Sarkisian said the government will continue its support to the Church
to help it become stronger adding also that the Armenian Church
should continue to remain a foundation stone of the Armenian spirit
and Armenian identity.
Both Catholici expressed hope that president Serzh Sarkisian will
work devotedly and with great responsibility to continue to serve the
nation and its ultimate interests. They also expressed their readiness
to help implement all good initiatives and ideas which the president
has to take the country forward.