Armenia

Concert Held on the Feast of Ascension

May 17, 2013 Featured News

16/5/13 With the blessing of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, the Christian Education Center of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin presented a festive concert in celebration of the Feast of Ascension.  The event was organized in collaboration with several Ministries of the Republic of Armenia – Education and [...]

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Lukashenko attends opening of St. Hovhannes Church in Armenia’s Abovyan

May 16, 2013 News

  YEREVAN, 15 May (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko attended the opening of St. Hovhannes Church in the Armenian town of Abovyan on 14 May, BelTA has learned. The Belarusian head of state attended the Service of Consecration of the church held by Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. The [...]

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Traveling To Karabakh Is An Elusive Prize For Many Visitors

May 9, 2013 Featured News
The Artsakh Army marching band (Photo by Matthew Karanian)

Matthew Karanian - 9/5/13 EDITOR’S NOTE: For a second time, Asbarez is teaming up with travelogue Matthew Karanian to present a travel special to serve as a guide for its readers who are planning a trip to Armenia and Karabakh. Matthew Karanian is the author of ARMENIA AND KARABAKH: THE STONE GARDEN TRAVEL GUIDE, which was [...]

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Protesters mark Armenian Genocide, demand compensation

April 25, 2013 Featured News

Stephen Dockery The Daily Star 24/4/13 BEIRUT: Thousands marched through Beirut Wednesday to call on Turkey to recognize the genocide that involved the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians nearly a century ago. Draped in the colors of the Armenian flag – red, blue and orange – over 10,000 people marched across east Beirut to Martyrs’ Square in Downtown. [...]

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Christian Armenians voice deep affiliation to Syria

April 25, 2013 News

Xinhua – 24/4/13 While marking the 98th anniversary of the Armenians’ Martyrs Day, Scores of Christian Armenians participated in the prayers ceremony that was held Wednesday in the Syrian capital of Damascus to stress their deeply- rooted affiliation to Syria. “The Christians are the sons of this country and our duty is to encourage dialogue [...]

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Catholicos Karekin II meets CoE Secretary General

April 19, 2013 News

18/4/13 PanARMENIAN.Net - On April 18, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II met with Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland. Karekin II highly assessed the support of Council of Europe in Armenia’s reform implementation, noting that Armenia’s presence in the institution significantly contributes to the strengthening of democratic processes in the country. Catholicos Karekin II voiced [...]

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Remarks of His Holiness Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Inauguration of the Republic of Armenia

April 9, 2013 Featured News

9/4/13 Your Excellency, Mr. President, Your Excellency, Mr. President of the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh, Honored President of the National Assembly, Your Eminences and Your Graces, Honored State Officials, Representatives of Diplomatic Missions, Dear Guests and Attendees, With prayer and appeals for the radiant life of the homeland on our lips, we greet and extend [...]

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Hasmik Poghosyan met with representatives of Armenian community in Georgia

March 26, 2013 News

26/3/13 YEREVAN, MARCH 25, ARMENPRESS. The Minister of Culture of the Republic of Armenia Hasmik Poghosyan paid a working visit to Tbilisi and had a meeting with the representatives of the Armenian community in Georgia in “Hayartun” centre of the Georgian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church on March 22. The Chairman of the Writers’ [...]

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Gems of Armenia: Cairo’s Arax Choir commemorates Aram Khachaturian

March 23, 2013 News

Ati Metwaly – 20/3/13 Armenian Community’s Arax Choir conducted by Mihran Ghazelian commemorated the 110th anniversary of composer Aram Khachaturian last Saturday. On Saturday 16 March, the Armenian Community in Egypt gathered at the Nubarian Armenian School in Heliopolis to listen to the Arax Choir conducted by Mihran Ghazelian. The event commemorated the 110th anniversary [...]

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Mother See urges Raffi Hovhannisian to stop hunger strike

March 15, 2013 News

YEREVAN, MARCH 15, ARMENPRESS. The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin issued a statement regarding the post- election developments in Armenia. The statement the Information System of the Mother See conveyed to “Armenpress” runs as follows: “Following the post-election developments and comments made during it we want to state the following. We highly appreciate the soberness [...]

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I had a dream: A Stepanakert native looks back at Karabakh’s recent past

March 9, 2013 News
Naira Hayrumyan

Naira Hayrumyan ArmeniaNow correspondent – 9/3/13 As a school girl I dreamed about my city one day becoming a really big capital to host presidents of foreign states, as well as ordinary tourists from abroad window shopping large local stores and dining at fancy local restaurants. But life in the small provincial town of Soviet-era [...]

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Ethiopia: The First Christian Nation?

March 6, 2013 Featured News

By Brendan Pringle - 6/3/13 For centuries, historians have widely accepted the argument that Armenia was the first Christian nation. This important claim has become a source of national pride for Armenians and has remained virtually undisputed for centuries — until now. Armenians will likely be up at arms when they learn that a new book [...]

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Catholicos Aram I of the Holy See of Cilicia congratulated Serzh Sargsyan on his re- election

February 22, 2013 News

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, ARMENPRESS: His Holiness Catholicos Aram I of the Holy See of Cilicia sent a  congratulatory address to the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on the occasion of his re-election. As reports ”Armenpress” the letter runs as follows: ”Noble Mr. President, We are pleased to welcome Your re-election as President [...]

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Catholicos of all Armenians voted on Armenia’s presidential elections day in Holy Etchmiadzin

February 19, 2013 News

YEREVAN, February 18. /ARKA/. Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II voted at 19/11 polling station in Etchmiadzin town, Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin reported Monday. Armenia’s presidential elections kicked off on February 18 at all polling stations at 8 a.m. sharp. Seven candidates are running for the country’s president today: incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan, former [...]

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Armenia tries to help as Christian Armenians flee Syria

February 14, 2013 Featured News

Diana Markosian, Special for USA TODAY – 14/2/13 An estimated 7,000 of Syria’s Christian-Armenian community have arrived in Armenia since the start of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad. YEREVAN, Armenia — Sarkiss Rshdouni escaped the fighting in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo months ago but cannot shake memories of what he witnessed. [...]

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The Armenians: Unsung Supporter of Hellenism

February 14, 2013 News

Catherine Tsounis – 14/2/13 “The Armenians are our brothers,” said Mr. Constantine Parthenis my Modern Greek instructor at St. Demetrios Greek American School in 1950’s Astoria, New York. Dr. Emory, a medieval historian at Queens College, explained in a 1969 undergraduate class that “the Armenians are not recognized significantly in the Byzantine Empire.” Throughout the [...]

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Armenian book’s divine breath through the ages

February 9, 2013 Featured News

Georgiy Saakov - 8/2/2013 Tashkent, Uzbekistan – The very first hand-written Armenian book that came to be known as “Astvatsashunch” (“The divine breath”) was the Bible translated 1600 years ago by Saint Mesrob Mashdots, the creator of the Armenian alphabet and the beginner of the native literary tradition. That was followed by original religious, historical, philosophical, [...]

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Clergy Conference Held in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

February 7, 2013 Featured News

On 5 February 2013, on the occasion of the Feast of St. Ghevond the Priest and his Companions, a Clergy Conference was held at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, under the presidency of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. The main conference agenda item was: “The organization and functioning [...]

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Georgia’s Ivanishvili Wants ‘Ideal’ Ties With Armenia

January 18, 2013 Featured News

Sargis Harutyunyan – 18/1/13 Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili pledged to seek the restoration of Georgia’s railway communication with Russia, vital for Armenia, and help make Georgian-Armenian relations “ideal” during his first official visit to Yerevan on Thursday. He also announced an ambitious initiative to end a long-running dispute between the government-backed Armenian and Georgian churches [...]

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Armenian Lighthouse Charitable Foundation Completes Chapel for Religious Services

December 30, 2012 News

  30/12/12 LONG BEACH, Calif. and PTGHUNK, Armenia — Zuhrab and Seta Ghazarian, the founders of the Armenian Lighthouse Charitable Foundation (ALCF), the organization formerly known as Paros “Lighthouse” Charitable Foundation, funded and recently completed the construction of a chapel adjacent to the ALCF center. The chapel was consecrated and named Soorp Mariam Asdvadzadzin (St. [...]

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Experiencing Traditional Holidays in Armenia

December 30, 2012 Featured News

BY CATHERINE YESAYAN -30/12/12 Asbarez contributor Catherine Yesayan, who is the one of two authors of the “Community Links” column spent the summer in Armenia. Throughout her trip, she reported on the interesting places she visited and people she met along her journey. Yesayan had the opportunity to experience two traditional Armenian holidays—Vardavar, the feast [...]

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PanARMENIAN.Net – Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II met with legendary French actor Alain Delon.

December 19, 2012 News

19/12/12 PanARMENIAN.Net -  Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II met with legendary French actor Alain Delon. His Holiness briefed Mr. Delon on the mission of Armenian Apostolic church and the role of Holy Etchmiadzin in lives of Armenian people. The Catholicos stressed the age-long friendship between Armenia and France, specifically noting the role of the [...]

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Armenians Fleeing Anew as Syria Erupts in Battle

December 13, 2012 Featured News

Displaced young Syrian Armenians at the recently opened Cilician School in Yerevan, Armenia.  ALIA MALEK – 11/12/12 YEREVAN, Armenia — At the newly opened Cilician School in this former Soviet republic, the textbooks are in Arabic, photocopied from a single set flown out of war-torn Syria. The curriculum is Syrian, the flag on the principal’s desk [...]

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Book about Armenian churches introduced in St. Petersburg

December 11, 2012 News

11/12/12 ST. PETERSDBURG, DECEMBER 10, ARMENPRESS. Illustrated book entitled “The Armenian Churches through Centuries” has been introduced to the public in “Vernatun” Spiritual-Cultural Centre of St. Catharine Cathedral of the Armenian Apostolic Church in St. Petersburg. Boris Baratov, filmmaker and photographer living in Moscow, is the author of the book. As reports “Armenpress” small and [...]

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“Armenian Churches in Tbilisi, Yesterday and Today” Exhibition Opens in Georgia

December 4, 2012 News

4/12/2012 An exhibition entitled “Armenian Churches in Tbilisi, Yesterday and Today” opened on December 1, 2012 at the “Hayartun” Cultural Center of the Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church in Georgia, The exhibition isdedicated to the founders of the Armenian Church Apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus. The idea of the exhibition belongs to Varujhan Khachaturov [...]

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