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
Armenian version:
HIS HOLINESS DELIVERS A LECTURE TO PROFESSORS
AND DOCTORAL CANDIDATES FROM THE UNITED STATES
25 renowned professors and doctoral candidates from the United States
visited Antelias on 27 May and held a meeting with His Holiness Aram I.
The team is visiting Lebanon to collect information from Lebanese
officials and conduct research around the topic “Lebanon: a country
of coexistence of religions and cultures.” The visitors listened to
a lecture by His Holiness on this topic.
Aram I highlighted the unique aspects of Lebanese society, presenting
Lebanon as a country of confessional and religious coexistence
and stressing the expression of this coexistence through cultural,
economical, religious and especially political means.
The Catholicos also talked about the positive challenges presented
by coexistence and the sensitivities caused by it. He emphasized that
the Lebanese communities should retain their identity and uniqueness,
but at the same time express their collective belongingness.
The attendants of the lecture, which lasted about an hour, asked
questions to which His Holiness gave clarifications.
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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.