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

THE ARMENIAN CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA PARTICIPATES IN THE WCC COMMISSION OF
THE CHURCHES ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS MEETING

The World Council of Churches’ (WCC) Commission of the Churches on
International Affairs convened in Geneva on September 11-13. Vana Kitsinian,
a lawyer from Los Angeles, represented the Catholicosate of Cilicia at the
meeting.

The participants discussed various religious, social and political issues
affecting churches and the world in general and outlined the positions of
the WCC vis-à-vis these issues as well as the council’s future steps.

Vana Kitsinian actively participated in all the sessions of the meeting and
in the activities of the working groups on Armenian Genocide and Ecumenical
relations.

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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 Ecumenical
activities 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.