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: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version: nian.htm
ANTELIAS TO HOST AN INTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH CONFERENCE
An international interfaith conference on migration is scheduled to take
place in the Antelias headquarters of the Catholicosate of Cilicia over the
next week. Over 100 delegates from around the world will take part in the
conference.
The conference is jointly organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC)
and the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC). Its inaugural session will
feature remarks by Catholicos Aram I, the General Secretary of WCC, Sam
Kobia, the spiritual leaders of the Maronite, Orthodox, Sunni and Shiite
communities in Lebanon, as well as the Lebanese Minister of Culture, Tarek
Mitri. A banquet will be held in honor of the guests on the same evening.
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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.