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  • ANTELIAS: Catholicosate demands reparations for the Adana Massacres

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

    PO Box 70 317
    Antelias-Lebanon

    THE CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA DEMANDS REPARATIONS
    FOR THE HUMAN AND MATERIAL LOSSES RESULTING FROM THE ADANA MASSACRES

    The weeklong events 24-30 November 2009, commemorating the 100th Anniversary
    of the massacres in Adana came to its conclusion with a three-day symposium.
    The agenda included study of bibliographies and references on the tragedy;
    statistics on the number of victims and inventories on material loses by the
    Holy See of Cilicia, the Armenian Catholic and Protestant communities and
    the Armenian population.

    At the end of the symposium the participants asked the Catholicosate of
    Cilicia, itself a victim of the tragedy to demand reparations from Turkey on
    behalf of the Armenian people. The symposium also recommended that the
    Catholicosate publish the proceedings of the symposium, as Adana Massacres
    were the rehearsal to the Genocide of 1915.

    In his closing remarks His Holiness Aram I stressed the need "to move from
    recognition to compensation".

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    View the photos here:
    http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/v04/doc/Pho tos/Photos414.htm
    *****
    The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
    the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
    the mission 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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