Tuesday, April 24, 2012

123 Armenian Genocide survivors live in Armenia

April 24, 2012 Featured News

24/4/2012 123 people, who survived the Armenian Genocide organized in Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1922, are currently living in Armenia, the head of social statistics and National Statistics Service of Armenia Nelly Baghdasaryan told Armenian News-NEWS.am. As of July 1, 2011, 123 survivors of the Armenian Genocide currently live in Armenia, while as of July 1, [...]

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Remembering Genocide

April 24, 2012 Featured News
Nora Nalbandian discusses exhibits at the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, which remembers victims of Armenian genocide. (Dean Musgrove / Staff Photographer)

By Susan Abram, Staff Writer 23/4/2012 They held their children in their arms and carried whatever else they could into the desert. Bibles that had been in families for centuries. Handmade lace handkerchiefs made for weddings and baptisms. Documents that listed their names and where they were born. Nearly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide [...]

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5,000 to protest on 97 anniversary of Armenian Genocide

April 24, 2012 News

The Daily Star 23/4/2012 BEIRUT: On the 97 anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, 5,000 people are expected to protest Tuesday in front of the Turkish Embassy in Beirut against Ankara’s refusal to recognize the mass killings as genocide. The commemoration will kick off with a Mass at the Armenian Orthodox Catholicosate in Antelias, north of [...]

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Armenians, Argentineans feel special love, affection toward each other – Catholicos

April 24, 2012 News

23/4/2012 ETCHMIADZIN. – The Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II, on Sunday received a delegation led by the Mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, who is Armenia to attend the “Yerevan: World Book Capital 2012” celebrations. Karekin II reflected on the Holy See of Saint Etchmiadzin’s role and significance in the beginning and development of [...]

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Coptic Christians call for divorce law relaxation

April 24, 2012 Featured News
Christians protesters demand the right of divorce and second marriages in July 2011

Al Ahram Online 23/4/2012 Coptic 38 – a group founded to demand liberalisation of divorce laws by Coptic Christian Church – calls for reimplementation of 1938 bylaws that permit divorce under 9 conditions. A Coptic Christian group called Coptic 38, established in 2011 to campaign for changes to the Church’s divorce laws, held a press [...]

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Priest hopes to start Orthodox church in area

April 24, 2012 News
Father Andrew Winters was ordained in the Western Rite Orthodox Christian Church in March.

By: MELISSA HALL, Winston-Salem Journal Journal , Winston-Salem Journal 24/4/2012 Starting a new church is not easy, but with patience and love, it can happen, says Father Andrew Winters, a priest with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. He is trying to bring one of the oldest forms of Christianity — the Western Rite [...]

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Orthodox Church under attack: Russian Patriarch

April 24, 2012 Featured News
Members of the Orthodox clergy walk in procession after a call to prayer in support of the Orthodox Church at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow April 22, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Denis Sinyakov

By Alissa de Carbonnel 23/4/2012 (Reuters) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church warned tens of thousands of believers on Sunday they were “under attack by persecutors” on a nationwide day of prayer intended to heal divisions over a protest at the altar by a women’s punk band. At least 40,000 people came to [...]

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