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
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PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version: nian.htm

THE LUTHERAN BISHOP IN JERUSALEM MUNIB YOUNAN
DISCUSSES THE PLIGHT OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES WITH HIS HOLINESS ARAM I

On Sunday 8 March 2009, Bishop Dr. Munib A. Younan, Head of the Lutheran
Church in Jerusalem visited His Holiness Aram I. The General Secretary of
the Middle East Council of Churches accompanied the Bishop. After the Holy
Liturgy the two guests had a working meeting with Catholicos Aram I in his
office. Rev. Ryad Jarjour, the former General Secretary of the Middle East
Council of Churches was also invited to join the meeting. The guests
discussed with His Holiness the difficulties of Christian communities in
Jerusalem and ways to help them; restructuring of the Middle East Council of
Churches, and finally, ecumenical and interreligious relations in the region
and outside the region.

His Holiness Aram I stressed the need to renew the MECC in order to respond
better to the needs in the region on behalf of the local churches. In this
context he also spoke of the need to strengthen ecumenical ties with
churches outside the Middle East Region and of making interreligious
dialogue a priority.

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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.