The World Council of Churches (WCC) calls on Azerbaijan to urgently and immediately lift the blockade on Artsakh. This call comes following a recent communication from His Holiness Catholicos Aram I to the WCC and the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), urging them to once again shed light on the Artsakh situation and denounce…
On Monday, July 31st, 2023, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I received the Armenian Ambassador to Lebanon. His Excellency Mr. Vahagn Atebekyan. His Holiness informed Atabekyan of the statements to be issued within the ecumenical movement regarding Artsakh, especially by the World Council of Churches and the Middle East Council of Churches. In turn, the…
His Holiness Catholicos Aram I met with the participants of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s International Youth Conference and blessed them on Thursday morning, July 27th, 2023. Notably, the launching of this conference, organized by the Lebanese Youth Association (LYA) Central Committee of the ARF, took place in Bikfaya on the same day, with attendees coming…
The official inauguration of the new episcopal residence in Bikfaya took place on July 22nd, 2023, with the presence of His Holiness Catholicos Aram I and the family of the late benefactor Karnig Yacoubian. The attendees included the Cilician Brotherhood, members from the National Central Committee of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, the architects, and representatives…
Ani Tchatalbashian Yacoubian and her children Aram and Anita, the family of the benefactor late Karnig Yacoubian, visited His Holiness Catholicos Aram I, on Tuesday, July 18th, 2023. His Holiness highly commended the generous donations of the Tchatalbashian and Yacoubian families throughout the years in support of the mission of the Holy See of…
With the blessing of His Holiness Catholicos Aram I, H.E. Arch. Kegham Katcherian, Prelate of the Armenian Prelacy of Greece, celebrated the Divine Liturgy on the occasion of the Feast of Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ, at St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias. The Feast of Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ…
Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, Associate Faculty Member in Armenian Studies at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, visited His Holiness Catholicos Aram I on Tuesday, July 11th, 2023. Dr. Tchilingirian is a participant in the online consultations with His Holiness on issues pertaining to the revitalization of the Armenian Diaspora within the…
During the first week of July, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I received the following visitors: – A group of Christian former ministers and members of the parliament, who shared with His Holiness their concerns and positions regarding the delayed presidential election. – Harout Sassounian, founder and chief editor of The California Courier, an…
On Monday, July 3rd, 2023, His Holiness Aram I received the Armenian General Benevolent Union’s President Berge Setrakian in Bikfaya. They discussed matters pertaining to Armenia, Artsakh, the Armenian Diaspora, Armenia-Diaspora relations, and the current issue of Jerusalem’s Armenian Patriarchate.
With the blessing of His Holiness Catholicos Aram I, the “Shornali” choir of the Catholicosate of Cilicia performed on the occasion of its 50th anniversary with a repertoire of Armenian patriotic songs, under the direction of V. Rev. Fr. Zaven Najarian, on Sunday evening, July 2nd, 2023, in Rabiew. The choir was accompanied by…
The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Hayastan All Armenian Fund was held on June 24th, 2023, in Yerevan. With the blessing of His Holiness Catholicos Aram I and on behalf of the Holy See of Cilicia, HE Arch. Shahan Sarkissian—Director of the Cilicia Library and the Ancient Manuscript Department of the…
Following the encyclical of His Holiness Catholicos Aram I marking the 850th commemoration of Nerses the Gracious (Shnorhali) and the symposium held in Antelias on the same occasion, HE Arch. Shahan Sarkissian participated in an international conference held at the Mesrob Mashdots Madenataran – Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, in Yerevan, and presented the legacy…
The 28th anniversary of His Holiness Aram I’s election and consecration as Catholicos of the Armenian Church, Holy See of Cilicia, was marked at Antelias, as well as in all local churches under the jurisdiction of the Holy See of Cilicia, on Sunday, July 2nd, 2023. His Holiness Catholicos Aram I presided over the…
The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), convened in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 21st to the 27th. This is the first Central Committee meeting after the 11th General Assembly, which took place in September 2022, in Karlsruhe, Germany, under the theme “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.” The plenary…
On Friday 30th, 2023, a phone conversation was held between His Holiness Catholicos Aram I and the President of the Republic of Artsakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, regarding the recent ongoing crisis in the country due to Azerbaijan’s genocidal blockade of Artsakh. His Holiness reaffirmed his solidarity with the Artsakh people and informed the President of…
