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
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I AND THE AMBASSADOR OF ITALY TO LEBANON
DISCUSS POST ROME MEETING OF RELIGIOUS HEADS
Following the meeting of the G8 Preparatory Meeting of Religious Leaders in
Rome 16-18 June 2008, organized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and the Roman Catholic Church, Ambassador Gabriele Checcia visited his
Holiness Aram I to hear his thoughts and hopes on the meeting and the
Declaration forwarded to the G8 Heads of States. They also discussed the
situation in Lebanon and the official talks around forming of a new Cabinet
by the Prime Minister.
At the end of their long meeting, the Ambassador was the guest for dinner of
Catholicos Aram I.
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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.