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

"BUILDING A NEW SCHOOL MEANS GIVING A NEW VITALITY TO OUR COMMUNITY LIFE"

SAID HIS HOLINESS ARAM I

On Sunday 24 May 2009, the Diocese of Lebanon inaugurated a new school in
Bourj Hammoud. His Holiness Aram I officiated the foundation-laying
ceremony. The President of the Council of the Diocese Mr. Gregoris Bogharian
welcomed the official guests and the members of the community and said that
with the blessing of His Holiness Aram I the community was committing itself
once more to safeguarding the Armenian national heritage. Archbishop Kegham
Khatcherian the Prelate of Lebanon then added that the impact of the new
school would expand beyond Lebanon because Lebanon was the pulse of Armenian
Diaspora. In his concluding remarks His Holiness Aram I said: "laying the
foundations of a school today demonstrates our collective will to overcome
the tragic experiences of the civil war and give shape to our mission and
vocation as a people of vision, faith and national awareness."

Singing "Cilicia" the anthem of the Catholicosate concluded the ceremony.

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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 history and
the mission 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.