World Council of Churches elects new general secretary

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YEREVAN, JUNE 20, ARMENPRESS. The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) held its first offline meeting after 2018, in the ecumenical center of Geneva on June 15-18.

Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay was elected as the new general secretary of the World Council of Churches during the meeting on June 17, the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin said.

The meeting was attended by members of the Central Committee Archbishop Vigen Ayqazyan (Armenian Eastern Diocese of the United States) and Mrs. Dianna Tsaghikyan (Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.

At a WCC inter-church platform Archbishop Vigen Ayqazyan raised the challenges facing the Armenian people caused by the 2020 aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh.

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“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS