23 August 2017. His Holiness Aram I visited the Summer Bible Camp for Youth, which was held in the village of Anjar, 21-27 August. This new initiative was organized by the Christian Education Department of the Armenian Orthodox Church of the Holy See of Cilicia. Upon his arrival, His Holiness was received by the youth…
On August 21, 2017, in the name of His Holiness Aram I, Rev. Bedros Manuelian, the head of the Information and Communication Department, and Staff Bearer Monk, Ardavazt Sharoyan, visited the injured soldiers of the Lebanese Army, who were wounded in the battle against ISIS. Among the injured was the Lebanese Armenian, Sebouh Giragossian. The…
On the morning of August 21, 2017, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I received two representatives of Mr Berri at St. Mary’s monastery in Bikfaya. The delegation extended an official invitation to His Holiness to attend the commemoration of the disappearance of Imam Musa al-Sadr. Dr. Jean Salmanian, representative of the Armenian community in the Christian-Muslim…
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on August 15 presented the State Department’s annual report on international religious freedom. Referring to the properties seized from the religious minorities by the Turkish government in previous decades, the report says that the country failed to return them to the owners. In particular, it pointed out that the…
On Friday, at St Mary’s Monastery in Bikfaya, His Holiness Aram I met with two members of the legal team, barrister Cem Sofuoglu and Dr Nora Bayrakdarian, to assess the current political situation in Turkey and identify strategic alternatives regarding the lawsuit demanding the return of the historical seat of the Catholicosate in Kozan.…
