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

HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES LEBANESE POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN HIS OFFICE

On 15 October 2009. The former Ambassador of Lebanon to Washington Simon
Karam visited the Pontiff. The former Ambassador had come to discuss with
His Holiness the issues of Christian presence in Lebanon and a document
setting the framework for cooperation among Christian communities.

On the same day Mr. Habib Afram, the President of the Assyrian League in
Lebanon also visited the Catholicos. He had come to discuss with His
Holiness Aram I his project on strengthening inter-confessional and
inter-Christian cooperation in Lebanon.

At the end of each visit His Holiness told his guests that their projects
should respond to the current political, economic, confessional and social
problems in the country.

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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.