On Monday, July 26th, 2021, the Hamazkayin Art Schoolsâ Summer Program students and teachers visited His Holiness Aram I, at St. Mary Monastery in Bikfaya, to receive his blessings. Â In a friendly atmosphere, the students described to His Holiness their activities at the summer camp, and His Holiness, in turn, shared with them how…
On Monday, July 12th, 2021, His Holiness Aram I received Simon Karam, Lebanonâs former ambassador to Washington. The main purpose of the visit was to discuss the evaluation of His Holiness of the recent Vatican meeting. Â Aram I gave a brief account and emphasized Vaticanâs and a number of countriesâ full support to Lebanon.…
On Sunday, July 11th, 2021, the Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ was marked at St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias. His Holiness Aram I presided over the Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Eminence Archbishop Shahan Sarkissian. Archbishop Shahan focused his sermon on the epistle to the Ephesians (5:14) and…
On Friday, July 9th, 2021, His Holiness Aram I received Elie Ferzli, the Deputy Speaker, Jean Aziz, former communication officer of the Presidential Palace, Dr. Abdallah Bou Habib, former Lebanese Ambassador to Washington, and Habib Aphram, the president of Lebanon’s Syriac League, accompanied by Hagop Pakradouni, Lebanese MP and head of the Armenian Bloc. …
On the evening of Thursday, July 8, 2021, under the auspices of H.G. Bishop Torkom Donoyan, Prelate, the Executive Council organized a special dinner in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Garo and Sosse Eshgian, in recognition of his many years of service to the Western Prelacy, our churches and schools, as well as his philanthropic…
On Wednesday, July 7th, His Holiness Aram I paid a brotherly visit to His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II. Â The two spiritual heads of the churches surrounded by their archbishops, bishops and archimandrites had an exchange of views related to the long-standing collaboration between their churches and nations. They emphasized the need to…
On Wednesday, July 7th, 2021, His Holiness Aram I received His Eminence Archbishop Levon Zekiyan, the Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Constantinople and Turkey. During the meeting, they discussed issues pertaining to the recent meeting of the Lebanese Christian leaders in the Vatican, as well as to the election of a new patriarch for the Armenian…
The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, the highest decision-making body of the WCC, convened via video meeting from June 23rd to the 29th. Over 200 committee members and participants joined the meeting. Two members of the central committee participated on behalf of the Catholicosate: V. Rev. Fr. Hrant Tahanian, Ecumenical Officer of…
Today in a personal letter to His Holiness Pope Francis, Catholicos Aram I wished him âa good convalescence and speedy recoveryâ from a surgery that the Pope underwent yesterday. Â Referring to the meeting of the Christian spiritual leaders In Vatican on 1st July, His Holiness Aram described it as a âlandmark eventâ. He said:…
(originally published by Horizon Weekly) His Holiness Catholicos Aram I has spoken about the consequences of Artsakh War, especially the return of Armenian captives, with His Holiness Pope Francis. Â The conversation was held on the sidelines of the meeting of Lebanonâs religions leaders in the Vatican. Â His Holiness reminded that Azerbaijanâs illegal…
(Originally published by Horizon Weekly) His Holiness Pope Francis held a meeting with His Holiness Catholicos Aram I, Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rai, and other Lebanonâs Christian leaders to discuss the countryâs crisis. Pope Francis and the patriarchs of Lebanonâs various Christian groups walked from the Santa Marta residence where he lives…
