Topic: Armenian Church
YEREVAN — Armenia celebrated New Year and later Christmas with pomp and ceremony on January 6. Special services were held in all churches; Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, his wife Anna Hakobyan, and government officials attended the[...]
ISTANBUL (AP, Ahval) — Turkey’s Armenian community on December 11 voted in Bishop Sahak Masalyan (alternatively written as Mashalyan or Mashalian) as its new patriarch, in an election that critics say was overshadowed by Turkish[...]
DETROIT – On November 16th, the Knights of Vartan Nareg-Shavarshan Lodge 100th Anniversary and the Daughters of Vartan Zabelle Chapter 70th Anniversary was celebrated with an elaborate dinner-dance in Detroit with over 200 guests.[...]
NEW YORK — It was a unique and unusual event at a top gallery in New York’s art district. Bishop Sahak Mashalian, Locum Tenens of the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul, and one of two candidates for the position of Patriarch, was in[...]
HAVERTOWN, Penn. — On October 6, Armenian Martyrs’ Congregational Church of Havertown hosted the Inter-Communal Committee’s October cultural program. This year, the Committee invited cellist David Bakamjian and actor Nora[...]
ISTANBUL (Panorama.am) — Archbishop Karekin Bekchian, one of the candidates for Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, issued a letter on October 21 addressed to Bishop Sahak Mashalian, the locum tenens of Turkey’s Armenian[...]
WORCESTER — On Saturday, September 29, the Armenian churches of Worcester County will hold their eighth annual Benefit Dance. Guests can enjoy Armenian, Arabic and Greek dance music from 7.30 p.m. to 1 a.m. All funds raised will be[...]
YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — The initiative group “Kamq” which is sponsoring a petition campaign named “No to Istanbul Convention” arrived on Monday, August 26 in Echmiadzin, Armenia’s Armavir region. “Our campaign continues in[...]
ECHMIDZIN — On August 18, Armenian Apostolic Church celebrated the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, attended the Divine Liturgy in Gayane Monastery. The Divine[...]
By Raffi Bedrosyan Hidden Armenians are the present descendants of Armenian orphans left behind in Turkey after the 1915 Armenian Genocide. These orphans, the living victims of the Genocide, were forcibly assimilated, Islamized, Turkified[...]