Lebanon

LOS ANGELES  — Conductor Vatsche Barsoumian, founder and director of the acclaimed Lark Musical Society in Glendale, welcomes more than 200 students each year to the world of music. As stated in their mission statement, “ LARK serves[...]

VATICAN (Vatican Radio/Catholic Culture.org) — The Synod of Bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church has elected Bishop Gregory Ghabroyan, 80, as the 20th Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia. The new patriarch, now known as Gregory[...]

  BEIRUT (Armenpress and PanArmenian.net) — Pope Francis sent a telegram expressing his condolences to the Patriarchal Synod of the Patriarchate of Cilicia of the Armenians, Beirut, on the death of Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX[...]

BEIRUT (Public Radio of Armenia) — Barely two months after the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, relatives of those who survived the mass killings are now fighting to prevent the graves of their loved ones from being exhumed[...]

By Florence Avakian NEW YORK — Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon, the region in northeast Beirut, Lebanon, which Armenian survivors from the Armenian Genocide built into a dynamic center for shopkeepers, craftsmen and artists came to life across[...]