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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
Watch our latest videos on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HolySeeOfCilicia
THE DIRECTOR OF THE FOUNDATION FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE VISITS HIS HOLINESS
ARAM I
On Friday 16 December 2011, His Holiness Aram I received in his office Mr.
Manuel Manonelles, Director of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace,
Barcelona and Mrs. Teny Simonian, Vice Moderator of the Ecumenical Committee
of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
The purpose of the visit of was to ask the cooperation of the Catholicosate
of Cilicia in organizing an international meeting in 2012 in Antelias.
The Foundation for a Culture of Peace was created in 2000 by Prof. Federico
Mayor, former Head of UNESCO, with the aim of building and consolidating a
culture of peace. In 2008, the Foundation invited His Holiness Aram I to a
meeting of the three Monotheistic religions to draft and sign a declaration
on "Religions and Building of Peace," currently know as the Montserrat
Declaration.
Having agreed to host a follow-up meeting to the Montserrat meeting, His
Holiness Aram I held a second meeting on Saturday 17 December 2011, with Dr.
Manonelles, Ms. Simonian, Rev. Dr. Paul Ruhanna, General Secretary of the
Middle East Council of Churches, and Mr. Mohammad Sammak, General Secretary
of the National Dialogue Committee (Lebanon), to discuss the agenda and the
participants of the forthcoming meeting.
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Photos: http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/v04/doc/Photos/Photos656.htm
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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 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.
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
Watch our latest videos on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HolySeeOfCilicia
THE DIRECTOR OF THE FOUNDATION FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE VISITS HIS HOLINESS
ARAM I
On Friday 16 December 2011, His Holiness Aram I received in his office Mr.
Manuel Manonelles, Director of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace,
Barcelona and Mrs. Teny Simonian, Vice Moderator of the Ecumenical Committee
of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
The purpose of the visit of was to ask the cooperation of the Catholicosate
of Cilicia in organizing an international meeting in 2012 in Antelias.
The Foundation for a Culture of Peace was created in 2000 by Prof. Federico
Mayor, former Head of UNESCO, with the aim of building and consolidating a
culture of peace. In 2008, the Foundation invited His Holiness Aram I to a
meeting of the three Monotheistic religions to draft and sign a declaration
on "Religions and Building of Peace," currently know as the Montserrat
Declaration.
Having agreed to host a follow-up meeting to the Montserrat meeting, His
Holiness Aram I held a second meeting on Saturday 17 December 2011, with Dr.
Manonelles, Ms. Simonian, Rev. Dr. Paul Ruhanna, General Secretary of the
Middle East Council of Churches, and Mr. Mohammad Sammak, General Secretary
of the National Dialogue Committee (Lebanon), to discuss the agenda and the
participants of the forthcoming meeting.
##
Photos: http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/v04/doc/Photos/Photos656.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.