REQUIEM SERVICE OFFERED IN HOLY ETCHMIADZIN FOR HRANT DINK
22-01-2007 16:07:00 | Armenia | Social
ETCHMIADZIN, JANUARY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. On Sunday, January
21, a solemn Repose of Souls service was offered in memory of
slain journalist and human rights advocate Hrant Dink in the
Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin by His Holiness Karekin II,
Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. Dink, editor
of the bilingual Agos weekly, was brutally assassinated in
Istanbul, Turkey on Friday afternoon, January 19.
Present for the Divine Liturgy and Requiem Service were
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Vartan
Oskanian, members of the Istanbul Armenian community, high
ranking clergymen and countless faithful.
The funeral service for Hrant Dink will take place in
Istanbul at the St. Mary Mother of God Cathedral of the Armenian
Patriarchate of Constantinople. As Noyan Tapan was informed from
the Information Services of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His
Holiness Karekin II has appointed His Eminence Khajag Barsamian,
Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
(Eastern), to participate in the funeral and burial services,
representing the Catholicosate of All Armenians and the
Brotherhood of Holy Etchmiadzin.