Cameraman Mesrop Avetisyan

How do we gather our spiritual strength during this period of fasting, and what examples do we take of our Lord from the episode of the ordeal in the desert?  Rev. Fr. Archimandrite Ruben Zargaryan speaks on this. 

The Great Barekendan is one of the most popular national holidays, a unifying and warm holiday. There were festivities in the yard of the St. Thaddeus Church in Masis.

 

On February 24, on the occasion of the feast of St. Vardan the Warrior and His Companions, under the presidency of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; eight deacons serving in different structures and dioceses of the Mother See were ordained into priesthood by His Grace Bishop Armash Nalbandyan, Primate of the Armenin Diocese of Damascus in the Holy Mother of God Church in Etchmiadzin. 

"Arakel"- a new play by the authors of theatrical blockbusters of the generation of independence.  Producer Armen Hambardzumyan and actor Samvel Topalyan are in "Artfocus". The conversation is conducted by Anahit Margaryan.

Next, cultural news.

What lawsuits are there today in international courts in the case of Armenia against Azerbaijan?  How can modern international law be applied in 2020, in the situation created after the third Artsakh war? Yeghishe Kirakosyan, the representative of the Republic of Armenia for international legal issues, is in our pavilion. The conversation is conducted by Anna Sargsyan.

We are discussing the new strategy of science and education with Anna Hovakimyan, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology after Malayan.

This year the Godfather of the cross of the Water Blessing service at the end of the Christmas liturgy in St. Mariane Church in Ashtarak is the hero of Artsakh, Major General Ararat Melkumyan. The high-ranking military serviceman took the sacred cross to his place of residence and service in Artsakh. In Artsakh, the sacred cross was taken in military bases, in the families of fallen servicemen, in ancient sanctuaries.

The children of Voskevaz community of Aragatsotn region are students of the painting department of the art school, they are for the first time in the "Ruben Sevak" museum of the Mother See, the occasion of the visit was the 137th birth anniversary of the writer.

In 2021, the balance of border crossings in Armenia is negative - 73571, the balance of migration is also negative - 4200. Anna Hovhannisyan, UNFPA Demographic Program Coordinator and Ethnosociologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Mihran Galstyan, talk about the current demographic problems of post-war emigration.  The conversation is conducted by Anna Sargsyan.

We are discussing the new science and education strategy with higher education expert Samvel Karabekyan.