BIFKAYA. – Formal opening of the Third Congress of Armenian Diaspora on Education took place on August 18 at St Astvatsatsin Church in Bifkaya city, Lebanon. It was organized by the Armenian Catholicosate Great House of Cilicia and was devoted to the topic of “Western Armenian Language Today: Challenges and Goals.”

The congress was run by the Catholicos of Great House of Cilicia Aram I, Armenian Yerkramas newspaper reports. After the welcoming participants from Lebanon, Syria, Southern and Northern America, Europe, Turkey and Middle East, the Catholicos Aram I blessed them and stated the issues referring the Western Armenian language. 

The participants made speeches on “Variety of textbooks on Western Armenian language grammar and the confusion generated by them,” which served for the theme of the first session. The second session was devoted to the “Necessity of the teaching program for the Western Armenian language at schools of the Diaspora.” The theme of the third session was the “Necessity of publishing new books and dictionaries for the Western Armenian language.” The fourth session discussed the “Necessity of training teachers for the Armenian linguistics.”