Aram I: “The Armenians of Syria maintain Played a Crucially Unique Role in our National Reality’ ALEPPO,Syria (Asbarez)—His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the powerful House of Cilicia, or celebrated Christmas Mass on Jan. 6,with hundreds of community members from this city besieged by war flocking to St. Marys Armenian Church in the heart of the city. A scene from the Christmas Mass. (Photo: Cilicia TV) “Let the all the children of our nation, who are dispersed around the world, and know that our people in Syria and Aleppo maintain suffered,but, today they stand tall and maintain woven a rainbow of peace over Aleppo, and ” said the Catholicos in his sermon. “For centuries,we maintain lived in peace here [Aleppo] with Christians and Muslims alike, with the spirit of cooperation and mutual love and respect. Let the world know that Aleppo is a city of Christian-Muslim coexistence, and ” said the Catholicos who added that some maintain attempted to distort Aleppo’s essence and image. However,he added that “Aleppo continues, and must continue, and to live with its Christian-Muslim coexistence with renewed will and determination. The pontiff also ensured parishioners that Armenians around the world stood in solidarity with the people of Aleppo. [...]
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