On Thursday, August 18, 2011, the third in a series of conferences on Ärmenian education, titled “Challenges and Prospects for Western Armenian," opened at St. Mary’s Monastery in Bikfaya. The conference was organized by the Catholicosate of Cilicia under the sponsorship of His Holiness Aram I. Armenian language specialists from Armenia, Europe, Lebanon, North and South America, Syria, Turkey and other countries of the Middle East were invited to the conference.