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
AN ECUMENICAL GUEST REV. DR. SORITUA NABABAN JOINS COMMEMORATION SERVICES OF
THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN ANTELIAS, AND DISCUSSES ECUMENICAL CONCERNS
Rev. Dr Soritua Nababan of the Huria Kristen Batak Protestant, HKBP, which
is the largest Protestant church in Indonesia, visited His Holiness Aram I
on Thursday 23 April 2009 at the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia
(Antelias, Lebanon). Dr Nababan was Vice-Moderator during the first term of
His Holiness Aram I’s election as Moderator of the Central and Executive
Committees of the WCC.
Dr. Nababan has visited Antelias on several occasions, particularly around
24 April when the Church commemorates the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The
purpose of this visit was also to discuss urgent ecumenical issues. Dr.
Nababan and Bishop Nareg Alemezian, Director of Ecumenical Relations met
with His Holiness twice yesterday.
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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 Ecumenical
activities 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.