PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Father Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version:
A DELEGATION FROM THE PONTIFICAL MISSION VISITS ANTELIAS
The representatives of the Pontifical Mission of the Vatican visited His
Holiness Aram I in Antelias on November 20. Pontifical Mission is a Catholic
humanitarian organization based in New York. It carries out projects in the
Middle East, Africa and Asia.
The delegation included the organization’s Assistant General Secretary,
Bishop John Fares and representatives from the United States and Canada.
The representatives briefed the Catholicos on the organization’s activities
during the past year, focusing on the projects it carried out in the Middle
East. His Holiness praised the organization’s humanitarian activities,
emphasizing that they should become more ecumenical and take into account
the necessity of Christian-Muslim coexistence in the region.
Speaking on the necessity of revitalizing the presence of Christianity in
the Middle East, His Holiness advised the delegation to consider this factor
while setting up the organization’s agenda.
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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.