Author Hermine Hakobyan

Pilgrim Rev. Fr. Hovsep Harutyunyan celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Holy Mother of God Church of Mets Shulaver village, which was also attended by the local people, as the church does not have a permanent clergyman. Pilgrims also visited the "Srbots evangelist" chapel of Karmir village.

The meeting took place in the rectory of the Saints Ghevondyants Cathedral. The meeting started with prayer at the proposal of Archbishop Hovnan Terteryan, diocesan Primate. At the meeting, the Archbishop referred to the vital importance of the church-state relations, especially at a time when the nation and the motherland are subject to various tests.

A liturgy was held in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Beyoglu, where the Enlightenment Choir sang. 95 years ago, in 1929, the Lusavorich School Choir was formed in St. Gregory the Illuminator Church in Istanbul. In 1944, the territory of the church and the adjacent Armenian cemetery were nationalized, the choir was moved to the Church of the Holy Resurrection next to Esayan College and functioned as a church choir.

Abbot Mkhitar on St. Lazarus Island in Venice is not only the head of a congregation, but also of a large center of Armenian studies, a scientist, the author of Haykaz dictionary, Christian, prayer, spiritual, grammatical, interpretive and exegetical works. The Roman Catholic Church is currently discussing the canonization of Mkhitar Sebastasi.

The exhibition titled "Poetry of Images" opened in cooperation with the Museums of Mashtots Matenadaran and Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin is dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the Persian-Armenian artist Andre Sevrugyan. Some of the famous artist's works are stored in the vaults of both institutions. Combined in one exhibition, presented for the first time, some works have never been shown before.

In the Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church of Toronto, an ecumenical ceremony dedicated to Saint Grigor Narekatsi took place. His prayers were read by bishops and spiritual fathers of both churches in Armenian and English. As a tribute to the memory of the martyrs of the Armenian Genocide, the participants of the ecumenical ceremony laid a wreath at the memorial monument on the territory of the church. At the end of the event, the anthems of Armenia and Canada were played.

The author of the monograph is Emma Chugaszian, a doctor of medieval history and art studies at the Paul Valery University of Montpellier, who is publishing a book dedicated to the royal manuscripts of Cilicia for the second time. The book is bilingual, Armenian and English. The composition is a fragment from the manuscript, where Queen Keran, her beauty and piety are mentioned. The commissioned Gospel in 1272 is in the treasury of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Canadian Armenians, led by the diocesan leader and clergy, went to the Turkish Embassy in Canada, where they protested against the continued denial of the Armenian Genocide. The participants of the action raised the Artsakh flag. They stated that the consequences of Turkish denial are significant a century after the genocide. Once again, the Armenian people faced the fact of being deprived of their homeland and losing their centuries-old heritage.

Priests undergoing training arrived at the Mother See from different dioceses of Armenia and the Diaspora. They are clergymen of different generations and different experience. The course lasted three weeks. In the first week, the priests focused on the mission of the spiritual, then the priest as a mentor, teacher, and the third week, the priest as a spiritual father in his home, in the church.

After the 2020 war, hundreds of Artsakh sanctuaries and places of pilgrimage were captured by Azerbaijan. Their fate is unknown, according to various reports, some of them were blown up, some were distorted.