PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: cathcil@cathcil.org
Web:

PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version: nian.htm

HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES THE MANAGEMENT OF THE "SAT 7" SATELLITE CHANNEL

His Holiness Aram I received the director of the satellite television
channel "Sat 7", Terrance Eskot, and the directors of the programming and
broadcasting departments, Rita El-Mounayer and Naji Daoud in Bikfaya on
August 14. Communications Officer of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, V. Rev.
Krikor Chiftjian, also attended the meeting.

The directors of the channel talked about the religious programs of their
annual programming plan and explained the channel’s main objectives. The
Catholicos praised the channel’s wide-ranging programs on Christianity,
pointing out that it plays a fruitful role with respect to the presence of
Christianity in the Middle East.

The two sides also discussed the possibility of broadcasting programs about
the Armenian Church. The meeting became an important opportunity to exchange
views and make future plans, opening up new possibilities of cooperation
between the Catholicosate of Cilicia and the channel.

It is worth mentioning that the regular meetings of the "Sat-7" committee
are held in Cyprus. Archbishop Sebouh Sarkisian represents the Catholicosate
of Cilicia in these meetings.

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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, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.