PRIMATE OF ARMENIAN DIOCESE OF TEHRAN RECEIVES EUROPEAN DELEGATIONS
Noyan Tapan
April 16, 2008
TEHRAN, APRIL 16, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. On April 14
Mr. Rishlen and Mrs. Pelez, Secretaries of the Embassy of Holand
accredited in Iran visited the national primacy of the the Armenian
diocese of Tehran. The guests were recieved by Archbishop Sepuh
Sargsian, the Primate of the diocese, who gave the necessary
information on the order and the structure of the church.
"On these April days the whole Armenian people is thinking about its
over one and a half million victims and is praying at the same time
for the peace of their souls. That was the most inhuman and savage
violation of the human rights, which was made by the Ottoman Turkey
by displacing and destroying our people," His Holiness stressed. The
guests expressed their support adding that the recognition of the
Armenian Genocide should be the primary obligation of all the civilized
countries and peoples.
As the Alik daily reports, Zhans Naiber, who is in charge of the
interchurch relations of the Evangelic Church of Germany, together
with Ver. Yeagobov, the pastor of the German speaking church of Tehran,
visited the primate on the same day in the afternoon.
The primate welcomed the guests and attached a great importance to
the role the Evangelic Church of Germany plays in the interchurch
relations, as well as in the process of the relations it has with
the Armenian church. Then, the primate passed certain information
concerning the church-cultural life of the Armenian community to the
guests and rememberd those merited Germans, who were of great help
to our people on the days of the Armenian Genocide and assertained
the Armenian Genocide with their writings and documentary references.
The guests expressed their support on this occasion and stated that
on April 24 they will pray with the Armenian people for the peace
of the souls of its one and a half million victims. At the end the
guests approached the April memorial and prayed for the rest of the
souls of our martyrs.