ETCHMIADZIN, APRIL 17, NOYAN TAPAN. A meeting on the issue of formation of the All-Armenian Youth Church Organization of the Armenian Apostolic Church was held on April 16 in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. The meeting chaired by the primate of the US Western Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Hovnan Terterian was attended by young people from the Armenian, Georgian and Artsakh dioceses. According to a press release submitted to NT by the press service of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the dates of the First Deputy Assembly and the National Pilgrimage were clarified at the meeting. The deputy assembly will be convened on July 11-12, 2008, in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, while the pilgrimage from Etchmiadzin to Oshakan will take place on July 12-13 of the same year. About three hundred young people will participate in the deputy assembly, over two thousand will go on a pilgrimage.

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