Tag: Armenia
Traveling To Karabakh Is An Elusive Prize For Many Visitors
The Artsakh Army marching band (Photo by Matthew Karanian) Tigranagert (Photo by Matthew Karanian) Matthew Karanian - 9/5/13 EDITOR’S NOTE: For a second time, Asbarez is ... Read More
Protesters mark Armenian Genocide, demand compensation
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 ... Read More
Christian Armenians voice deep affiliation to Syria
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 ... Read More
Catholicos Karekin II meets CoE Secretary General
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 ... Read More
Remarks of His Holiness Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Inauguration of the Republic of Armenia
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 ... Read More
Hasmik Poghosyan met with representatives of Armenian community in Georgia
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 ... Read More
Gems of Armenia: Cairo’s Arax Choir commemorates Aram Khachaturian
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 ... Read More
Mother See urges Raffi Hovhannisian to stop hunger strike
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 ... Read More
I had a dream: A Stepanakert native looks back at Karabakh’s recent past
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 ... Read More
Ethiopia: The First Christian Nation?
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 ... Read More
Catholicos Aram I of the Holy See of Cilicia congratulated Serzh Sargsyan on his re- election
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 ... Read More
Catholicos of all Armenians voted on Armenia’s presidential elections day in Holy Etchmiadzin
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. ... Read More
Armenia tries to help as Christian Armenians flee Syria
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 ... Read More
The Armenians: Unsung Supporter of Hellenism
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 ... Read More
Armenian book’s divine breath through the ages
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 ... Read More
Clergy Conference Held in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
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 ... Read More
Georgia’s Ivanishvili Wants ‘Ideal’ Ties With Armenia
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 ... Read More
Armenian Lighthouse Charitable Foundation Completes Chapel for Religious Services
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 ... Read More
Experiencing Traditional Holidays in Armenia
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. ... Read More
PanARMENIAN.Net – Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II met with legendary French actor Alain Delon.
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 ... Read More
Armenians Fleeing Anew as Syria Erupts in Battle
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 ... Read More