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
THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN DAMASCUS WELCOMES HIS HOLINESS ARAM I
At the end of the public meetings, His Holiness Aram I, along with the
Prelates of Syria and Lebanon and the other members of the delegation, met
with the Armenian community at the Community Center, which is presently
under construction. After welcoming speeches by different bodies of the
Damascus community and a cultural event, the leadership announced that
several benefactors were donating funds to complete the project that will
also include a church and a school.
Catholicos Aram I thanked the community and noted that "the Armenian Church
is a ‘Servant Church’ which has always sought to unify the people." "Only
through the collective will of the people," he continued, "can the Armenian
nation and its spiritual and cultural values endure." He also thanked the
donors for their generous contribution to the project. At the completion of
his visit, His Holiness greeted the people personally.
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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.