Press Release
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Father Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Read the Pontifical Message in Armenian here:
Messages/messages46.htm
Armenian version:
THE 28TH ARMENIAN BOOK FAIR IS LAUNCHED IN ANTELIAS
The annual Armenian Book Fair organized by the Catholicosate of Cilicia was
launched on November 12 in Antelias.
After the Holy Mass held in the St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, His
Holiness Aram I headed a procession of the Cilician Brotherhood and the
Seminary students to the Cilicia Museum yard, where the book fair is being
held.
A large number of spirituals, members of Parliament, intellectuals,
students, journalists attended the opening in addition to the believers that
had attended the mass earlier. The representatives of foreign religions who
have come to Antelias to participate in the 3 day Middle East-Asia
inter-faith dialogue were also present at the opening.
A number of local and foreign Armenian publishing houses and authors
participate in the conference alongside the various presses operating within
the Catholicosate. The fair has been organized by the Catholicosate’s
bookstore committee. It includes spiritual, ecclesiastical, philosophical,
literary, pedagogical, musical, cultural and may other types of
publications.
The fair will go on until December 3, opening its doors to book lovers every
day from 10:00 AM till 7:00 PM.
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View the photos here:
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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 books
published in the Printing House of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer
to the web page of the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.