YEREVAN — The $1.1 Million Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity was awarded on May 28, to Dr. Tom Catena, a Catholic missionary from Amsterdam, NY, who has saved thousands of lives as the sole doctor permanently based in Sudan’s[...]
YEREVAN — On May 28, President Serzh Sargsyan hosted a gathering at the Presidential Palace for representatives of The Club de Madrid and Aurora Prize selection committee. The Club de Madrid is an independent non-profit[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — On May 27, UWC Dilijan celebrated the graduation of its second crop of students, bidding farewell to 87 students from 50 countries who are leaving the college to explore the world.[...]
YEREVAN (Mediamax) — First Aurora Prize Laureate Marguerite Barankitse has paid a visit to Armenia. First she visited the Tsitsernakaberd monument and laid flowers at the eternal flame. “I haven’t come here as a victim, I came as[...]
BOSTON — The iconic images of the late Princess Diana walking on a mine field cleared by the HALO Trust in Angola 20 years ago shocked people around the world and put the issue of land mines on the global political map. While that[...]
MANCHESTER, UK (Public Radio of Armenia) — Henrikh Mkhitaryan has won Manchester United’s Goal of the Season Award on May 118. The stunning effort against Sunderland secured a landslide win for the Armenian, whose remarkable scorpion[...]
ISTANBUL (RFE/RL) — Representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations over the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh during the 25th anniversary summit of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) held in Istanbul on Monday, May 22,[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenia has joined in the global chorus of condemnation of the terrorist attack in the United Kingdom that claimed the lives of 22 people and injured dozens. A suicide bomber struck at an American pop star’s concert[...]
YEREVAN — Dr. Tom Catena, who leaves the Nuba Mountains only in utter necessity, will fly to Armenia in order to attend the Aurora Prize weekend of events and the Award Ceremony in Yerevan. He was nominated last year as well. But in[...]
GYUMRI — Anyone who knows anything about Armenians is aware of the special role their language plays in their history and culture, and nowhere is this more obvious than in their rich poetical tradition. In Germany, this tradition is not[...]
WASHINGTON — “ArmComedy” benefit shows, co-hosted by the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) and Armenia Tree Project (ATP), sold out in all three tour locations —Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Incorporating Armenian[...]
