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  • ANTELIAS: Third Ecumenical Formation Seminar begins in St. Mary's

    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

    THIRD ECUMENICAL FORMATION SEMINAR BEGINS IN ST MARY'S MONASTERY IN BIKFAYA
    (LEBANON)

    For the third time more than eighty representatives of Dioceses, Sunday
    School and Youth Movements, and ecumenical staff working on different levels
    of the Catholicosate of Cilicia is meeting in Bikfaya 10 to 17 August 2009.
    The programme includes Bible Studies, presentations on the Armenian Church,
    its Traditions, Liturgy and History, Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue.
    In addition, at the end of each day the representatives from Lebanon, Syria,
    Cyprus, Greece, Iran and North America are sharing their experiences,
    concerns, problems and expectations related to the topics.

    On Tuesday 11 August the meeting began with a Matin Service in St. Mary's
    Chapel. After welcome and introductions the Director of the Office of
    Ecumenical Relations Bishop Nareg Alemezian introduced the programme and
    thanked the "Punic Humanitarian Foundation" for its financial contribution
    to the seminar. Dr. Nora Bayrakdarian-Kabakian explained the purpose of the
    seminar. Following these presentations, His Holiness Aram I gave his
    blessings and said that the goal of this formation seminar is not only to
    receive information but also to learn to communicate, share, listen,
    participate and contribute to ecumenical thought. He added that these
    seminars should remind us that we are all 'students' always learning because
    our societies and the world around us is changing constantly, and that for
    us ecumenism is not representation but contribution.

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    View the photos here:
    http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/v04/doc/Pho tos/Photos392.htm
    *****
    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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