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Catholicos Aram I consecrates Armenian Orthodox Church and Genocide Memorial in UAE

16. December 2014 - 12:00

Following the anointment of the baptismal font and the pictures by the Primates of Tehran, Isfahan and Lebanon, on Thursday evening, His Holiness Aram I, on Friday, anointed the altar and dedicated the four main columns of the building to the four Evangelists. Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian, Prelate of Tehran, Bishops Papken Charian, Prelate of Isfahan, and Shahe Panossian, Prelate of Lebanon, continued the ceremony by anointing all the other columns and dedicating them to the Apostles and St. Gregory the Illuminator. After the thanksgiving prayers, His Holiness addressed the pilgrims who had come from different countries of the region.

Cathedral’s hunt for stolen Bible pages worth £1m

15. December 2014 - 13:17

Winchester Cathedral wants to track down eight Medieval illuminations that are missing from the greatest surviving 12th-century English Bible. These may have been stolen in the past 150 years, so there is a reasonable chance that they survive, probably unrecognised in a private collection.

Police in Moscow find stolen old icon worth million dollars

15. December 2014 - 13:14

Moscow criminal police detectives have found a 16th-century icon worth one million dollars that was stolen a year ago.

The icon was stolen from a church in the Kirov Region, central European Russia, in September 2013. A criminal case was opened over the theft of a rarity.The icon was found in a restoration shop in Moscow, police said. This year, it is the third case when a stolen old icon is found.

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Catholicos Aram I Visit Embassies of Armenia and Lebanon in Abu Dhabi

15. December 2014 - 13:07

10 December 2014. On Wednesday, His Holiness Aram I and his delegation visited the Embassy of Armenia in Abu Dhabi. Ambassador Kegham Gharibian and the staff welcomed the Catholicos. After the blessing of the bread and salt, they led the Catholicos to the garden to plant a tree in order to memorialize his visit.

European Prayer Breakfast at the European Parliament

15. December 2014 - 12:58

The European Prayer breakfast was organized this year at the European Parliament. The I.A.O. Secretary General Mr. Anastasios Nerantzis participated as a key speaker at the panel discussion and was accompanied by the I.A.O. Russian Advisor prof. Valery Alekseev.