YOUTH DEPARTMENT OF CATHOLICOSATE OF GREAT CILICIAN HOUSE ORGANIZES
LECTURE DEDICATED TO STRUGGLE AGAINST DRUG ADDICTION

ANTELIAS, July 30 (Noyan Tapan). The Youth Department of the
Catholicosate of the Great Cilician House started the initiative
dedicated to struggle against drug addiction. The first arrangement
entitled “To Know and Prevent Drug Addiction” was recently held at the
“Hakob Ter-Melkonian” hall of Burge Hamud, it was sponsored by Bishop
Gegham Khacherian, Head of the Armenian Diocese of Lebanon, and was
presided over by Minister of Youth Affairs and Physical Training of
Lebanon Sepuh Hovnanian. Father Geghard Kyusbeghian, executive of the
Youth Department of the Catholicosate of the Great Cilician House,
stressed the importance of the increase of the self-consciousness of
the people to drug addiction and similar social acts. A documentary on
damages caused by drug addiction was shown after the speech of the
father. This film provides information about different types of drugs
and damages caused by them to the people’s organizm and their mental
world. The section of lectures followed the show of the
film. According to the press divan of the Catholicosate of the Great
Cilician House, the Youth Department of the Catholicosate will come up
again with new initiatives within the framework of struggle against
drug addiction in the near future.