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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
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES HEADS OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE GULF
COUNTRIES
On Friday 16 November 2012, the Heads of 22 Christian communities,
established in the countries of the Gulf region, visited His Holiness Aram
I. Bishop Shahé Panossian, the Pontifical Delegate of the Catholicosate of
Cilicia for the Gulf countries, accompanied the delegation.
The representatives were in Lebanon upon the invitation of the Middle East
Council of Churches (MECC) to discuss the creation of an Inter-Church
cooperation committee in the Gulf. Mrs. Seta Hadeshian, the director of the
MECC Department, Diakonia and Development, introduced the representatives
and said that the group had come to meet His Holiness, a President of the
MECC, a church leader and experienced ecumenist.
Catholicos Aram I welcomed the project and said that the churches, as the
Body of Christ, are organically linked and should work together because
ecumenism is an essential part of the vocation of the Church. His Holiness
Aram I cautioned the guests to be attentive to local religious, political
and social customs of their new countries because any misunderstanding might
put local churches in a difficult situation.
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photo: p://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/v04/doc/Photos/Photos771.htm#4
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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
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES HEADS OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE GULF
COUNTRIES
On Friday 16 November 2012, the Heads of 22 Christian communities,
established in the countries of the Gulf region, visited His Holiness Aram
I. Bishop Shahé Panossian, the Pontifical Delegate of the Catholicosate of
Cilicia for the Gulf countries, accompanied the delegation.
The representatives were in Lebanon upon the invitation of the Middle East
Council of Churches (MECC) to discuss the creation of an Inter-Church
cooperation committee in the Gulf. Mrs. Seta Hadeshian, the director of the
MECC Department, Diakonia and Development, introduced the representatives
and said that the group had come to meet His Holiness, a President of the
MECC, a church leader and experienced ecumenist.
Catholicos Aram I welcomed the project and said that the churches, as the
Body of Christ, are organically linked and should work together because
ecumenism is an essential part of the vocation of the Church. His Holiness
Aram I cautioned the guests to be attentive to local religious, political
and social customs of their new countries because any misunderstanding might
put local churches in a difficult situation.
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photo: p://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/v04/doc/Photos/Photos771.htm#4
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