PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: info@ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org
Web:

PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Watch our latest videos on YouTube here:

"GHEVONTIANTZ AND VARTANANTZ FEASTS REMIND US EVERY YEAR OF THE NEED TO
UNITE AS PEOPLE IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES"

Said His Holiness Aram I

On Thursday 11 February 2010 the Armenian Church celebrated the feast of the
martyr saints Ghevontiantz and Vartanantz at the St. Gregory the Illuminator
Cathedral in Antelias.

After the liturgy, celebrated by Bishop Norayr Ashekian and presided over by
His Holiness Aram I, the Foreign Minister of Nagorno Karabagh, the honorary
guest of the day, the clergy, the seminarians and the people walked in
procession to the Main Hall of the Catholicosate. After blessing the people,
His Holiness addressed them and said: "The commemoration of the martyrs of
the battle of Vartanantz is a constant reminder of the challenges the
Armenian people face at all times and in all places. The only way to respond
to these challenges is to be united just as Vartan and his men were in their
time.

After the message of His Holiness Aram I, Foreign Minister Kevorki
Bedrossian greeted the people and asked for them to be in solidarity with
the leadership and people in Nagorno Karabagh as they search for peaceful
solutions to their problems.

The commemoration ended by singing spiritual songs dedicated to the
Ghevontiantz and Vartanantz martyrs.

##
View the photos here:
tos/Photos437.htm
*****
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.