CHURCH AND SOCIETY

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| 14:36:41 | 13-06-2005 | Official |

On June 15-19 in Danblane, Scotland, the enlarged session of the
“Church and Society” Commission of the European Churches Conference
will take place with the invitation of the Scotland Churches.

Since 2004 Hovakim friar Manoukyan represents the Holy Echmiadzin in
the ECC the “Church and Society” Commission. Before that the Armenian
Apostolic Church was represented by Voskan archbishop Galpakyan.

In the coming meeting the works of the Commission done in 2003-2005,
those to be done in 2005-2006, the issues of the vacant places in the
Commission working groups, as well as issues about globalization,
the EU Constitution, the new structure of the ECC and others will
be discussed.

The meeting to take place in Danblane is the third of the newly formed
Commission. The first two took place in Vavre and Brussels, Belgium,
in May and September, 2004, respectively.