Armenian church ready to communicate with Qom Seminary

Rasa - Echmiadzin Cathedral of Armenia announced readiness to communicate with Qom Seminary and to hold joint meetings entitled “Religions for Peace and Solidarity and the Role of Religious Leaders in Promoting Peace in the Region” with the seminary.

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Date: 19 November 2014 - 18:45

The Echmiadzin Cathedral of Armenia announced readiness to communicate with Qom Seminary and to hold joint meetings entitled “Religions for Peace and Solidarity and the Role of Religious Leaders in Promoting Peace in the Region” with the seminary.

Iranian Cultural Attaché to Armenia, Majid Meshki, attended the holy Echmiadzin Cathedral of Armenia and met with the Director of Church Relations, Bishop Huakim Manoukian and the Director of International Relations, Bishop Nathan Huanisian, and discussed issues of interest, pursuing and reviewing the implementation of past agreements.

In the wake of the report of readiness by the international relations director of the Islamic Seminaries of Iran to cooperate with the Echmiadzin Cathedral, Bishop Huakim Manoukian announced at the beginning of the meeting the church officials’ approval to communicate with  Iran’s seminaries and called for holding joint meetings entitled “Religions for Peace and Solidarity and the Role of Religious Leaders in Promoting Peace in the Region” with the Qom seminary.

Iranian cultural Attaché to Armenia, Majid Meshki, expressed satisfaction with the church’s approval and acknowledged the second half of December and the first half of March this year as appropriate for holding the proposed meeting, hoping that the meeting will develop permanent ties between the two religious and academic centres.

At the meeting, regional developments, the Takfiri phenomenon and killing people in the name of religion were discussed and two sides condemned abusing religion to justify such brutal actions.

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