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: info@armenianorthodoxchurch.org
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version: nian.htm
THE ARMENIAN CHURCH PARTICIPATES IN THE WCC ECUMENICAL OFFICERS’ MEETING
The Ecumenical officers of World Council of Churches (WCC) member churches
convened a meeting in the organization’s Geneva headquarters on May 20-22.
Bishop Nareg Alemezian (Ecumenical Affairs officer of the Catholicosate of
Cilicia) and Father Hovagim Manougian (Assistant to the director of the
Ecumenical Relations Office of the Catholicosate of All Armenians in
Etchmiyadzine).
Some 40 representatives from churches in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin
America, Northern America and the Middle East participated in the meeting.
The following issues were discussed during the meeting: the main ecumenical
facets of each church, the reports of WCC project managers, the activities
of the WCC Youth Department, ecumenical relations and the mission of
churches in globalized societies, the imperative for the unity of churches,
the essential importance of ecumenical relations, the situation in the
Middle East and the need to overcome violence, issues related to the global
climate, immigration as an international phenomenon and understandings of
Christianity’s mission and evangelism today.
Bishop Nareg presented during the discussion interfaith and interchurch
activities of the Catholicosate of Cilicia and held meetings with
representatives from various churches, shedding light on the socio-economic
challenges Lebanon faces currently.
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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.