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Aram I hails Christian education efforts by Tehran diocese

by OCP May 11, 2012 News

11/5/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – Meeting with the General Assembly of Tehran diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, emphasized the particular importance of Christian education as a vital dimension of the Christian mission. He said: “The church fulfills itself as a community of faith through its [...]

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Surp Holy Cross Tibrevank Armenian Church granted foundation status

by OCP April 22, 2012 News

TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL 20/4/2012 The Foundations Council of Turkey’s Directorate General for Foundations (VGM) has granted foundation status to the Surp Holy Cross Tibrevank Armenian Church. The decision to grant the church foundation status was discussed at a meeting of the Foundations Council on Wednesday. The council noted that the request by the Armenian church [...]

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ANCA-Orange County to host commemorative Armenian Genocide event featuring a screening of “Bolis”

by OCP April 19, 2012 News

18.04.2012 The Armenian National Committee of America-Orange County will be hosting an Armenian Genocide Commemoration event featuring a screening of “Bolis” by Award winning Director Eric Nazarian. The event will be held on April 22, 2012 in the Gugasian Hall at Forty Martyr’s Armenian Church. “We are looking forward to this year’s commemoration as a [...]

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Easter is celebrated at Armenian church in Turkey’s Diyarbakir

by OCP April 17, 2012 Featured News

16/4/2012 An Easter Liturgy was celebrated for the first time in the St. Giragos Armenian Church in Diyarbakir, Turkey, ever since its restoration. The Divine Liturgy was served by pastor Avedis Tabashyan of the Forty Children Church in Hatay Province, Turkish Haberfx informs. Aside from the Diyarbakir Armenians, Mayor Abdullah Demirbas …

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Sheikha Fraiha endorses Armenian Church demands

by OCP April 2, 2012 News
KUWAIT: Sheikha Fraiha Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah with members of the Armenian community during the visit. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

2/4/2012 KUWAIT: Sheikha Fraiha Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah announced that she will continue supporting efforts of the Armenian community in Kuwait to have a piece of land licensed for building an Armenian Apostolic Church in the country. Sheikha Fraiha, who is the chairperson of the Kuwait Society for Ideal Family, announced her endorsement during a ceremony held [...]

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One more Armenian church will be restored at Western Armenian territory

by OCP March 19, 2012 News

19/3/2012 Yesterday Turkish minister of culture and tourism presented money to start restoration of the Malatian Tashkhoran and Vank village churches. Armenian Church in Malatia is in the same community where Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink was born. The church is 250 years old. According to Marmara magazine the program of restoration is confirmed and the [...]

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Repairs for Saint Nshan: Georgia to restore Armenian Church

by OCP March 8, 2012 News

7/3/2012 The National Agency for Protection of Cultural Heritage of Georgia announced Tuesday that it has begun restoration of Saint Nshan church, an Armenian house of worship that was seriously damaged in two fires during January. Restoration is expected to take three months. In mid-January, a group of experts from the Ministry of Culture of [...]

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Armenian Church robbed in Yalta

by OCP February 25, 2012 News

22/2/2012 YALTA. – An unknown criminal stole a donation box from the Armenian Church in Russian City of Yalta at 11.30 on Monday. As the Center of Journalism Investigations informs linking to the Yalta Police, the donation box had been located in the lobby of the church. The camera captures a man about 170 cm [...]

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Catholicos familiarizes UK ambassadors with Armenian Church activities

by OCP February 22, 2012 News

21/2/2012 YEREVAN. – The Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II, received, at the Holy See of Saint Etchmiadzin, Jonathan James Aves and Catherine Jane Leach, the United Kingdom’s newly appointed ambassadors to Armenia. The Catholicos expressed confidence that the close ties between the British Embassy and the Holy See, which were established during the tenure [...]

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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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Armenian Singer from Turkey, Sibil, to Make Metropolitan New York Debut

by OCP February 15, 2012 News

15/2/2012 HACKENSACK, N.J. — In 2010, a young singer in an Armenian Church choir named Sibil captured the attention and hearts of Turkey’s population. The headlines read “For the first time an Armenian singer is being heard in the streets of Istanbul.” Sibil and her sister, Garin, were born in Istanbul with a family name [...]

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Turkish elderly man guards Armenian Church

by OCP February 12, 2012 News

10/2/2012 TRABZON. – Hasim Kantekin, 78, guards St. Amenaprkich Armenian Church (built in 1424) in Trabzon, Turkey. Hasim Kantekin told Anadolu agency that the church is located on his territory which he has inherited from his father. The old man informed that he does not keep anything in the church. He said that he has [...]

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Clergyman: “Armenian Church protects Armenian national traditions”

by OCP February 12, 2012 News

12/2/2012 Priest Nikoghayos Hovhannisyan, head of the “For protection and development of Armenian kitchen traditions” NGO Sedrak Mamulyan and the secteraty of the same NGO Vahe Antanesyan met journalists at “Armat” (“Root”) press-club and spoke about the Armenian religious feast called Tyaryndaraj. During this feast newly- married couples gather and jump over the fire. Priest [...]

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Ethiopian church preserves its African culture, faith

by OCP February 12, 2012 Featured News

12/2/2012 Visiting the early Sunday morning service of Fresno’s only Ethiopian Orthodox congregation is like stepping into a land far away. Just like in Ethiopia, men and women wear gabri, white linen garments that symbolize the biblical account in John 20:12 of “two angels in white garments, one at the head and one at the [...]

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97th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide to Be Held in Times Square, Sunday, April 22, 2-4 pm

by OCP February 6, 2012 News

6/2/2012 Theme “Turkey Is Guilty of Genocide: Denying the Undeniable Is a Crime”; Armenian Genocide experts and survivors available for interviews. NEW YORK, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — For the 27th year, thousands of Armenian Americans and their supporters will gather in Times Square (Broadway between 43rd and 44th Streets) to commemorate the [...]

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St. Nshan was built on the basis of another Armenian Church, Samvel Karapetyan says

by OCP January 30, 2012 News

Alisa Gevorgyan “Radiolur” 30/1/2012 The Georgian Patriarchate issued a statement recently, questioning the Armenian origin of St. Nshan Church of Tbilisi, noting that the issue should be solved before the return of the church to the Armenian community can be discussed. The Georgian side says Armenian built their church on the basis of an older [...]

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Tbilisi municipality launches restoration of Armenian Church

by OCP January 24, 2012 News

23/1/2012 TBILISI. – Municipality of Tbilisi started restoration works of the Armenian Church St. Nshan in the ancient part of the capital. “Currently the territory is being cleaned up from rubbish. Afterwards, the restoration will start,” municipality informs, Georgia Online reports. As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the agreement to restore the Armenian Church was reached [...]

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Armenian church in Tbilisi to be restored

by OCP January 21, 2012 News

19/1/2012 Armenia and Georgia have reached an agreement on restoration of the Armenian Church of Surb Nshan in Tbilisi, News Armenia reports. A group of Armenian experts from the Culture Ministry, supervised by the head of the Agency for Preservation of Historic and Cultural Monuments, Serzhik Arakelyan, visited Tbilisi on January 11-13 to investigate the [...]

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Armenian church is burnt in Tbilisi

by OCP January 12, 2012 Featured News

12/1/2012 Armenian Church St. Nshan in Georgian capitalTbilisiwas burnt again. People who live nearby informed Times.am reporter that they did not know the reason of the fire. At the same time they noted that people without place to live, drug-men and drunk men always gather at the church, which is left by everyone. Georgian authorities [...]

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2012 YEAR OF THE ARMENIAN BOOK

by OCP January 9, 2012 Featured News

(Summary in English of the Pontifical Message of His Holiness Aram I) Pontifical Message Addressed to the Prelates of the Dioceses of the Holy See of Cilicia, Members of the Clergy, Church Councils and Community Organizations, And the Faithful of the Armenian Church We greet you from the Holy See of Cilicia in Antelias with [...]

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Detroit community fundraises for Baku Armenian memorial

by OCP January 5, 2012 News
St. John's priest Fr. Garabed Kochakian with community members.

Julia Papiyants 5/1/2012 SOUTHFIELD, MICH. – Beginning in 1988, sparked by the independence movement of Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabagh and accompanied by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Baku and Sumgait pogroms targeted the historic Armenian minority in Azerbaijan. Mobs of extremist Azeris attacked and killed Armenians in streets and in their homes, and [...]

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Ordination of Deacons in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

by OCP December 31, 2011 News

26/12/2011 Armenian Church On December 26, the Feast day of St. Stephen the Proto-Deacon and First Martyr of the Church was commemorated in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. According to established tradition, an ordination of deacons was offered in the Mother Cathedral. With the blessings of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and …

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Istanbul Armenian Church Seeks Return of Tuzla Orphanage

by OCP December 30, 2011 News

30/12/2011 According to a news report in today’s Hurriyet, Pastor Krikor Ağabaloğlu of the Gedikpaşa Armenian Protestant Church has filed a formal application with Turkey’s Foundations General Directorate for the return of an Armenian orphanage in Istanbul’s Tuzla district that had been expropriated in the wake of Turkey’s 1980 military coup. Murdered journalist and human [...]

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40th Anniversary of Ordination of Archbishop Barsamian Celebrated

by OCP December 28, 2011 Featured News

The Diocesan Council organized a reception at the Sheraton Commander Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., in honor of Archbishop Khajag Barsamian’s 40th anniversarry of priesthood and 20th anniversary of being Primate. 25/12/2011 The Eastern Diocese of the Armenian orthodox church of America NEW YORK — This year marks the 40th anniversary of Archbishop Khajag Barsamian’s ordination [...]

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Armenian Church owned by Turk used as warehouse in Turkey

by OCP December 16, 2011 Featured News

16/12/2o11 Armenian Church in Turkey’s Svaz province is still used as a warehouse. As the Turkish IHA agency informs, as the renovation works of the Church have been stopped the Church is used as a warehouse. It was planned to renovate the Church and open it as a touristic sight. Mehmet Gul who owns the [...]

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