His Holiness Aram I meets with His Beatitude John X of Antioch and All the East

On Wednesday 4 December 2013, His Holiness Aram I met with His Beatitude John X Yazigi in Balamand (Lebanon). The two spiritual leaders discussed issues related to the two Churches, the situation of their communities in Syria and the status of the two kidnapped Archbishops. They then focused on two recent and urgent issues: the…

His Holiness Aram I receives archive photos of the Bird’s Nest from London-based Composer and Conductor, Vartan Melkonian

On Monday 2 December 2013, Vartan Melkonian visited His Holiness Aram I and handed over 100 pictures from the archives of the early years of the Bird’s Nest. The pictures were a gift from the K.M.A. Danish Missionaries who established the Bird’s Nest to house the orphans they had brought from Turkey. Vartan Melkonian and…