30 December 2015. During the week, Catholicos Aram I joined the New Year’s festivities of the educational, cultural, social and advocacy programmes offices and programmes of the Catholicosate of Cilicia and praised their work on the 100th commemoration activities for the Armenian Genocide. During the last two gatherings of the Shenorhali Choir and the Armenian Church University Students Association (ACUSA), he invited everyone to assess their past programmes and set new strategies for the post-100th Anniversary Genocide period.