Tag: Armenian Church

Easter is celebrated at Armenian church in Turkey’s Diyarbakir

OCP- April 17, 2012

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 ... Read More

Sheikha Fraiha endorses Armenian Church demands

OCP- April 2, 2012

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 ... Read More

One more Armenian church will be restored at Western Armenian territory

OCP- March 19, 2012

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 ... Read More

Repairs for Saint Nshan: Georgia to restore Armenian Church

OCP- March 8, 2012

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 ... Read More

Armenian Church robbed in Yalta

OCP- February 25, 2012

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 ... Read More

Catholicos familiarizes UK ambassadors with Armenian Church activities

OCP- February 22, 2012

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, ... Read More

Armenian Church to receive new privilege

OCP- February 17, 2012

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 ... Read More

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

OCP- February 15, 2012

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 ... Read More

Turkish elderly man guards Armenian Church

OCP- February 12, 2012

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 ... Read More

Clergyman: “Armenian Church protects Armenian national traditions”

OCP- February 12, 2012

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 ... Read More

Ethiopian church preserves its African culture, faith

OCP- February 12, 2012

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, ... Read More

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

OCP- February 6, 2012

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, ... Read More

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

OCP- January 30, 2012

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 ... Read More

Tbilisi municipality launches restoration of Armenian Church

OCP- January 24, 2012

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 ... Read More

Armenian church in Tbilisi to be restored

OCP- January 21, 2012

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 ... Read More

Armenian church is burnt in Tbilisi

OCP- January 12, 2012

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 ... Read More

2012 YEAR OF THE ARMENIAN BOOK

OCP- January 9, 2012

(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 ... Read More

Detroit community fundraises for Baku Armenian memorial

OCP- January 5, 2012

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 ... Read More

Ordination of Deacons in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

OCP- December 31, 2011

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 ... Read More

Istanbul Armenian Church Seeks Return of Tuzla Orphanage

OCP- December 30, 2011

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 ... Read More

40th Anniversary of Ordination of Archbishop Barsamian Celebrated

OCP- December 28, 2011

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 ... Read More