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The case of an Armenian priest’s expired visa is upsetting many young parishioners

by OCP May 3, 2012 News

By Ruxandra Guidi 1/5/2012 Liliya Chobanian and Sossi Postajian attended the same services at Glendale’s St. Mary’s Church for years, but they didn’t know each other. As they sip tea in an Armenian-owned Pasadena restaurant, they chat about the fact that they have much more in common than their faith: They both followed the teachings [...]

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Armenian Apostolic church trying to save buildings in Moldova

by OCP April 29, 2012 News

28/4/2012 YEREVAN.- The Armenian Apostolic Church intends to return the territories belonging to it in Moldova. The church territories were soled several years ago. There is unfavorable situation in Chisinau, said head of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin press service Vahram Melikyan when the Armenian News-NEWS.am reached him for comment. He told that the head [...]

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Memorial Walkway for Armenian Genocide created in Arizona

by OCP April 14, 2012 News

13/4/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – Noubar Armen Manoogian, 17, of Scottsdale, Arizona, has become the first Boy Scout of Armenian descent to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout in the state of Arizona. According to a press release provided by St. Apkar Armenian Apostolic Church, the completed project was approved by the Grand Canyon Council and the [...]

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Sumgait pogroms commemorated in Romania

by OCP February 29, 2012 News

29/2/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – On February 26, Romania hosted events commemorating the 24th anniversary of pogroms of Armenians in the Azeri town of Sumgait. A liturgy was served in St Michael and Gabriel Church in Bucharest in memory of victims of Sumgait massacres. On behalf of the Armenian embassy in Romania, Armenian community and the local [...]

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Armenian Church to receive new privilege

by OCP February 17, 2012 News

16/2/2012 YEREVAN. – The legalization payments will be exempt for Armenia’s churches and church structures which the individual benefactors had built, but without the appropriate formalities. The State Committee of Real Estate Cadastre presented such draft decision for the Government’s approval. And this matter is included on the Government’s session on Thursday. This decision refers [...]

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New vicar of Atrpatakan diocese of Armenian Apostolic Church appointed

by OCP January 14, 2012 News

12/1/2012 Editor of Hask clerical journal of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), head of the communication and information department of Cilicia Catholicosate (Lebanon), Abbot Grigor Chifchian is appointed a vicar of Atrpatakan (Iran) diocese of AAC. According to another decision, Catholicos Aram I appointed Abbot Partev Kulimian, 36, a spiritual inspector at the AAC in [...]

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St. Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church debuts in Rancho Mirage

by OCP January 14, 2012 News

Colin Atagi The Desert Sun 14/1/2011 RANCHO MIRAGE — Coachella Valley Armenians for years attended church services by going to Los Angeles or San Diego or using a dining hall building in Rancho Mirage. But as this wasn’t the ideal way of worshipping they put in motion plans to build their own church in the [...]

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Bako Sahakyan visits the residency of the Armenian Apostolic Church Patriarchic exarch in Moscow

by OCP December 23, 2011 News

YEREVAN,ARMENPRESS 22/12/2011 On 21 December Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan visited in Moscow the residency of the Armenian Apostolic Church Patriarchic exarch. President Sahakyan together with primate of the New Nakhichevan and Russian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Patriarchic exarch bishop Ezras Nersisyan walked around the construction site of a new cathedral and church [...]

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Armenian church opens in Bulgaria

by OCP December 21, 2011 News

21/12/2011 The Saint Stepanos Armenian Church of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, officially opened Monday. Father Abgar Hovakimian, Locum Tenens of the Armenian Apostolic Church’s Diocese of Bulgaria, celebrated a Holy Mass at the Church. Armenia’s Ambassador to Bulgaria, Arsen Shoyan, chair members of Armenian Apostolic Church Committee in Bulgaria, Mayor of Pazardzhik, and Armenian benefactors also attended [...]

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“Armenia: From Centuries to Eternity” presented at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

by OCP December 19, 2011 News

19.12.2011 The “Armenia: From Centuries to Eternity” book was presented at the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs today. It has been published by the Armenian Embassy in the United Arab Emirates. The book is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of independence of the Republic of Armenia. It includes general information about the Republic of Armenia [...]

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Armenian Apostolic Church welcomes Caucasus Muslims’ spiritual leader’s proposal to hold border meetings

by OCP November 30, 2011 News

30/11/2011 ETCHMIADZIN. – The Armenian side welcomed Caucasus Muslim Board Chairman Allahshukur Pashazade’s proposal to also organize meetings at the border, Father Vahram Melikyan, head of the information system of the Holy See of St. Etchmiadzin, told Armenian News-NEWS.am. “During the November 28 trilateral meeting among the spiritual leaders of the region, they primarily …

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Karabakh President meets primate of Western Diocese of Armenian Apostolic Church

by OCP November 21, 2011 News

21/11/2011 President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan attended on Sunday a religious service held at the St. Leon Cathedral of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Los Angeles. President Sahakyan also held a meting with the diocese’s primate Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, members of the diocesan council and representatives of the local Armenian [...]

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President Sargsyan attends the opening of the Armenian Apostolic Church complex in Moscow

by OCP October 25, 2011 News

24.10.2011 At the invitation of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, President Serzh Sargsyan arrived in Moscow on a state visit. The President of Armenia visited the newly constructed Armenian Apostolic Church complex in Moscow, participated in the ceremony of consecration of the doom cross of the Cathedral and the ceremony of blessing. [...]

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Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia welcomed in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

by OCP September 22, 2011 Featured News

18/9/2011 The Armenian Apostolic Church In the evening of September 18, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, welcomed His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia to Armenia in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. His Holiness Aram I, is visiting to participate in the events dedicated [...]

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State Department on Armenian church collapsed in Georgia

by OCP September 14, 2011 News

14/9/2011 Georgian government respected religious freedom in law and in practice, says U.S. State Department’s report on religious freedom. The report contains information about the Armenian church collapsed in Tbilisi in November 2009. “The church was used as a warehouse during the Soviet era. The church did not reopen after the country’s independence, when title [...]

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Demands for resignation of Armenian Catholicos are nonsense – Holy See of Etchmiadzin

by OCP September 7, 2011 News

5/9/2011 YEREVAN. – Issues related to the problems specified by We Demand Resignation of the Catholicos social initiative on the current state of the Church of Holy Astvatsatsin (Virgin) in Yerevan, have been honored with due attention and necessary actions have been taken even prior to the signal by any group, Holy Etchmiadzin Information System [...]

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Armenia: Village Hopes Religious Revival Can Spur Economic Improvement

by OCP August 27, 2011 News
The churchless village of Karakert, left emotionally and economically crumbling after the collapse of the Soviet Union, holds a mass baptism in the hall of the community center, where residents of all ages were christened into the Armenian Apostolic Church with blessings from priests, handmade cross necklaces, candles and holy water. (Photo: Keegam Shamlian)

By:Liana Aghajanian Originally published by EurasiaNet.org 25/8/2011 Residents of one of Armenia’s most dilapidated villages are hoping a religious revival can improve their economic fortunes. In early August, the town of Karakert, a churchless Armenian village founded during the 1950s to house factory workers, hosted a mass baptism. Residents, some of whom now refer to [...]

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Setting the Record Straight: List of Churches in Turkey

by OCP August 24, 2011 Featured News

By: Raffi Bedrosyan 23/8/2011 (A.W.)–The recently appointed ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, responding to questions submitted by Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), made incorrect claims about churches in Turkey. We would like to provide some facts for the ambassador’s attention. As Armenian Weekly readers know from a recent article published in the paper, the approximate number [...]

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Dmitry Medvedev congratulates Karekin II on 60th birthday

by OCP August 22, 2011 News

22/08/2011 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has sent a congratulatory message to Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, on his 60th birthday, according to the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church. “Your Holiness, I cordially congratulate you on your 60th birthday. The time of your primatial service has been marked with true [...]

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New lake pier constructed for Akdamar Church

by OCP August 18, 2011 Featured News

Vercihan Ziflioğlu ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News 17/8/2011 The Van Governor’s Office is aiding in the preparations for the second Divine Liturgy on Akdamar Island’s Surp Haç Church by building a pier that will be better equipped to handle the number of expected visitors. Other arrangements are also being made to serve the guests who will [...]

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51 sectarian organizations operate in Armenia

by OCP August 18, 2011 News

17/8/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net – 67 religious organizations are registered in Armenia, 10 of which function under the Armenian Apostolic Church, 6 are old branches of traditional churches while the other 51 are sects. As Head of the Center for Aid and Rehabilitation to the Victims of Destructive Cults, Alexander Amaryan told a press conference on August [...]

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Armenia: Property Disputes Fueling Church Tension Between Yerevan And Tbilisi

by OCP August 13, 2011 News

By Gayane Abrahamyan 11/8/2011 The Georgian Orthodox Church’s claim to several monasteries in neighboring Armenia is stoking religious tension between the two South Caucasus neighbors. The fact that Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as a state religion (in 301 AD) is a source of national pride in Yerevan, and government officials accordingly [...]

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Prelacy’s summer youth program marks 25th Anniversary

by OCP August 11, 2011 News

Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church By Tamar Haratunian, Esq 10/8/2011 NEW YORK – The St. Gregory of Datev Institute, a program presented by the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church to provide Christian education to youth ages 13-18, celebrated its 25th anniversary this summer. The July 9 banquet took place at the [...]

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Remonstrance: Some Georgians protest legalization of non-orthodox Churches

by OCP July 11, 2011 Featured News
Armenian church of Norashen (Saint Mariam), Tbilisi, Georgia

By SIRANUYSH GEVORGYAN ArmeniaNow reporter 11.07.11 Since Saturday, in Georgia, thousands of people have been holding demonstrations of protests, with calls against the “anti-Orthodox forces”, to show their anger at the legislation approved in the country’s parliament to grant legal status to five religious groups, including the Armenian Apostolic Church. Last week the Georgian parliament [...]

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Law on legal status of religious units in Georgia enters into Force

by OCP July 7, 2011 News

7/7/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net – Legislative amendment allowing religious minority groups to be registered as legal entities of public law, went into force after being published on July 6 by the state online registry of legal acts. Posting of the document by Sakanonmdeblo Matsne (legislation herald) means that it has been signed into law by President Saakashvili [...]

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