The Aragatsotn Diocese has organized a training course for young people


A two-day training course entitled "We are young people who serve the centuries-old church" was held in Aragatsotn Diocese with the participation of more than 140 young people. Representatives of art and science, clergy held discussions with the young people, each of them addressing the problems in their field and the possible options for solving them through the young people.

 

The employees of the socio-educational centers of the church dioceses participated in the discussion


The employees of the socio-educational centers of the dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic Church participated in the discussion on the topic "Modern tricks promoting family well-being and the usefulness of the media field". It was organized by the Armenian office of the United Nations Population Fund and the Armenian Round Table Foundation of the World Council of Churches, funded by the European Union "European Union for the equality of women and men: together against gender stereotypes and violence" within the framework of the project.

On the Feast of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God a Divine Liturgy was served in the Holy Mother of God Church of Nork


Reverend Father Vanand Andreasyan spoke about the role of the Holy Mother of God and the salvation of humanity. Holy Mother of God has a unique place in the class of saints of the Armenian Church. She was taken to heaven not only in spirit but also in body. At the end of the Divine Liturgy, a grape blessing ceremony was held in the Holy Mother of God Church of Nork.

AGBU "Discover Armenia" program participants met the Catholicos of All Armenians


AGBU "Discover Armenia" project participants visited the Mother See as volunteers to help the church. They cleaned the open altar, tidied up the old cemetery, and washed some of the temple's ritual carpets. With the program, young people aged 15-18 came from different settlements of the world, who live together for three weeks, travel around Armenia, discover the country, culture, history and people.

An intellectual game-competition was organized on the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God


An intellectual game-competition titled "Motherhood and Family" was held in the Holy Trinity Church of Malatia. For the third year already, the youth associations of the Ararat Pontifical Diocese are preparing for the liturgy of the feast of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God with a game-competition. In the heated competition between more than 10 teams, the "Cross" team of the youth union of the Holy Cross Church of Arabkir was declared the winner, the second place was taken by the "Zoravore" union of the Holy Mother of God Zoravor, and the third place is the "Ararat" youth union of St. Sargis church.

AGBU "Andranik" scout camp in Dilijan has ended


More than 130 scouts of "Armenian Youth Association" of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Armenia of AGBU spent a week in "Andranik" scout camp in Dilijan. During this time, they visited the sights of Armenia, made pilgrimages to shrines and met with the Patriarch of All Armenians at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. The scouts spent the last day at the campfire. The president of AGBU Armenia expressed hope that the next camps of scouts in the homeland will be more crowded and with a wider geography.

 

AGBU "Andranik" scout camp in Dilijan has ended


More than 130 scouts of "Armenian Youth Association" of AGBU Iraq, Iran, Syria and Armenia spent a week in "Andranik" scout camp in Dilijan. During this time, they visited the sights of Armenia, made pilgrimages to shrines and met with the Patriarch of All Armenians at the Holy Etchmiadzin. The scouts spent the last day at the campfire. The president of AGBU Armenia expressed hope that the next camps of scouts in the homeland will be more crowded and with a wider geography.

The exhibition of Manon-Armine Avetisyan was opened in the Union of Artists


The exhibition titled "Emotional Storm" by Manon-Armine Avetisyan was opened in the Union of Artists, where the painting works of the artist from different years were presented. Manon-Armine Avetisyan is the pedagogue of the drawing class of the Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin and Armenian Youth Center of Arabkir. Teaching for over 30 years. Her students participate in Armenian and international competitions.

The Catholicos of All Armenians received the young pilgrims of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America


His Holiness Karekin II commanded the young people to keep their national identity and loyalty to national values ​​intact and to be actively involved in the national-church life. There are 24 members of the senior group of Church-loving Youth Unions of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America who came to Armenia to participate in the volunteer program. Their goal is to share the historical, cultural and spiritual heritage of the motherland.

The Catholicos of All Armenians received the participants of the AGBU "Andranik" scout camping program


The Catholicos of All Armenians highly appreciated the efforts of the AGBU Central Board for the patriotic mission, the support shown to the Mother See and the worldwide dioceses of the Armenian Church, for the implementation of various educational and cultural programs. About 138 scouts from Syria, Iran, Iraq and Armenia participate in the "Andranik" scout camping. The camp has been operating since 2007 in the Tej Ler area of ​​Lermontovo. After the covid, the camp did not work for 4 years and it was reopened only this year.

At the invitation of the Mother See, the Romanian Orthodox Church will support the forcibly displaced families from Artsakh


The delegation of the Romanian Orthodox Church, at the invitation of the Armenian Apostolic Church, came to Armenia to study the needs of forcibly displaced families from Artsakh and to support them in the future with the Mother See. They are collecting financial support in all parishes to help those forcibly displaced from Artsakh. With the help of the Social Affairs Office of the Mother See, the clergy, accompanied by Bishop Tatev Hakobyan, Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Romania, visited the people of Artsakh and found out their basic needs.

An English specialist forcibly displaced from Artsakh teaches sand painting to children in Yerevan


Hasmik Arzumanyan, forcibly displaced from Artsakh, teaches sand painting to Artsakh children living in Yerevan. During the siege, she founded a sand painting center in Stepanakert, where children painted with colored sand accompanied by classical music, following the schedule of electricity. After settling in Yerevan, she participated in a special training course organized by UNICEF and "Tree of Life" Psychological Services Center.