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  • ANTELIAS: Church Participates in the WCC Ecumenical Officers' Mtg

    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 ARMENIAN CHURCH PARTICIPATES IN THE WCC ECUMENICAL OFFICERS' MEETING

    The Ecumenical officers of World Council of Churches (WCC) member churches
    convened a meeting in the organization's Geneva headquarters on May 20-22.
    Bishop Nareg Alemezian (Ecumenical Affairs officer of the Catholicosate of
    Cilicia) and Father Hovagim Manougian (Assistant to the director of the
    Ecumenical Relations Office of the Catholicosate of All Armenians in
    Etchmiyadzine).

    Some 40 representatives from churches in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin
    America, Northern America and the Middle East participated in the meeting.

    The following issues were discussed during the meeting: the main ecumenical
    facets of each church, the reports of WCC project managers, the activities
    of the WCC Youth Department, ecumenical relations and the mission of
    churches in globalized societies, the imperative for the unity of churches,
    the essential importance of ecumenical relations, the situation in the
    Middle East and the need to overcome violence, issues related to the global
    climate, immigration as an international phenomenon and understandings of
    Christianity's mission and evangelism today.

    Bishop Nareg presented during the discussion interfaith and interchurch
    activities of the Catholicosate of Cilicia and held meetings with
    representatives from various churches, shedding light on the socio-economic
    challenges Lebanon faces currently.

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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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