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Easter event at St. Zoravor ChurchAfter the Divine Liturgy of the Holy Resurrection, the festive moods was kept alive with the Easter exhibition and table organized by the Church Youth Union outside the St. Zoravor Church of Yerevan.
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Candlelight of Holy Resurrection in Haghartsin Monastery ComplexThis year, the President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan participated in the Eastern Candlelight Divine Liturgy held in Haghartsin Monastery Complex. Many pilgrims from different regions gathered in Haghartsin.
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Visit to Odzun, Kobayr and Lori Castle (Lori Berd) MonumentsOn the occasion of International Day for Monuments and Sites, the RA Ministry of Culture organized a visit to Odzun and Kobayr Monastery Complexes and Lori Castle in Lori and Stepanavan for architects and journalists. All three monuments are under construction.
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Festival “X-Theatre” launchedOn April 11, the festival “X-Theatre” was launched. For the 7-th time now the theatrical troupes and directors of the capital and marzes are provided with a new platform. The festival is underway with the efforts of the Ministry of Culture of Armenia and National Theatre Unions. It will be on till May 3 featuring around 17 performances.
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Daniel Yerazhisht (Musician)Conductor, musicologist, professor of Yerevan Conservatory after Komitas, Grigor Danielyan (Daniel Yerazhisht) recalls his very first spiritual feelings. He was six when he started attending musical school. Years later he discovered that the entire alphabet of vocal sounds – do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, were the first syllables of prayer. “It turns out that all my life I am unwillingly extending prayers so that God cleans my lips of sins and gives me voice to whole-heartedly glorify the Creator”, says Daniel Yerazhisht. |
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Palm Sunday at the Mother See of Holy EtchmiadzinToday, on April 13, the Armenian Church celebrated Palm Sunday. Traditionally, the feast sets off by the ceremony of Andastan, Blessing of Four Corners of the Earth. His Holiness offered the blessing service of children.
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Holy week: sacrament in the heartFor us as Christians, Holy week is a period of reporting and reconciliation. The heroes of the movie “Holy Week: Sacrament in Heart”, Mariam and Narine are artists. They tell about their meditations over the period of Lent, in particular about those things they need to manage for the seven days of the Holy week. Father Nikoghos Hovhannisyan generalizes the sacrament of Holy week in the life of a Christian, and exhorts to live these days in the spirit of humbleness and tolerance. |
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Population of Armenia by religious affiliationOn the census run in October 2011, the respondents were for the first time also asked about their religious views. What is the scene like as recorded by the statisticians?
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Spiritual Film Festival “Fresco” in ArmeniaOn June 20, the International Modern Art and Spiritual Film Festival will be held in Armenia. Complete information on the festival is available on fresco.am official web-site. The details on the festival were reported by the festival Chairman Shahen Nazarenko.
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Loving paintingOur heroes are painter Artur Hovhannisyan and miniaturist Lusine Matevosyan. The hero of Artur, who prefers realistic style and creates mainly large-scale canvases, is man, his feelings, emotions and lifestyle. However, Lusine fully enjoys detailed work on a small area for months. She prefers medieval art.
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“The Wild Rose in Ararat Valley”Over 100 of different works have been created on the basis of Goethe’s poem “Wild Rose” in different times. Daniel Yerazhisht (musician) has chosen ten of them in his attempt to explain the secret of the poem’s longevity and magnificence. The concert was under the motto “Goethe’s Rose in Ararat Valley”.
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Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin condemned the terrorist attacks by extremists in KessabDuring a consultation at the Mother See, the Patriarch of All Armenians affirmed that the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and its diocesan structures dispersed throughout the Diaspora will continue to support the Syrian Armenians.
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