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  • ANTELIAS: Catholicosate participates in WCC Int'l Conf in Iran

    PRESS RELEASE
    Catholicosate of Cilicia
    Communication and Information Department
    Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
    Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
    Fax: (04) 419724
    E- mail: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/

    PO Box 70 317
    Antelias-Lebanon

    Armenian version: http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/v04/doc/Arme nian.htm

    THE CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA PARTICIPATES IN THE WCC INTERNATIONAL
    CONFERENCE
    ON CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM DIALOGUE IN TEHRAN

    The Inter-religious Dialogue and Cooperation Programme of the World Council
    of Churches (WCC) and the interfaith dialogue center of the Iranian
    Organization of Culture and International Affairs, organized a
    Christian-Muslim international conference in Tehran during December 13-14.

    Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian (Primate of the Diocese of Tehran) headed the
    delegation of the World Council of Churches.

    The focus of the conference was coexistence between different religions.
    Archbishop Sarkissian delivered a paper on this occasion, entitled the
    "Armenians in Iran: an exemplary case of Christian-Muslim coexistence."

    On the same day he also took part in another international conference on the
    theme "City and dialogue".

    The dialogue between WCC and the religious dialogue Department of the
    Islamic Republic of Iran started upon the initiative of His Holiness Aram I
    nearly ten years ago. The two bodies meet annually in Geneva or Tehran. In
    this context the former President of Iran, Mohammed Khatami, visited the
    Geneva headquarters of WCC four years ago and spoke to the staff and
    ecumenical guests on inter-religious relations between Christianity and
    Islam.

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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 Ecumenical
    activities of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
    the Catholicosate, http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org The Cilician
    Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
    Antelias, Lebanon.
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