Fr. Mesrob Parsamyan Elected as New Primate of Eastern Diocese of Armenian...
NEW YORK — Very Rev. Fr. Mesrob Parsamyan, Director of Ministries at the Eastern Diocese in New York, was elected as the new Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America during the...
View ArticleAliyev Accuses Armenians of Barbarism While Talking about Making Peace
President Ilham Aliyev held an international conference titled, “South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation,” on April 29, 2022 in Baku, Azerbaijan, with 40 participants from 23 countries. The...
View ArticleCalifornia Armenian Legislative Caucus Foundation Announces New Members...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Armenian Legislative Caucus Foundation announced its new members Assemblymember Megan Dahle, Assemblymember Mike Fong, and Assemblymember Miguel Santiago. The...
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Lafayette Midfielder Heads to Brazil for Deaflympics
By Shannon Sigafoos EASTON, Penn. (news.lafayette.edu) — When she first walks into a room, Ani Khachadourian ’25 seems like your average first-year college student. Clad in a Lafayette Athletics jacket...
View ArticleThe Proven and the Unprovable
By Levon Ter-Petrossian Part 1 That the policy of rejecting mutual compromises and preserving the status quo led to a national disaster, there is no need to demonstrate. Even some who supported that...
View ArticleNew Glendale Mayor Kassakhian Focuses on Fundamentals of City Governance,...
GLENDALE, Calif. — Ardashes “Ardy” Kassakhian was selected as mayor of Glendale, the Armenian-filled “Jewel City” of California, last month, on April 5, but he is not a newcomer to public service to...
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Armenian Opposition Protesters Face Criminal Proceedings
By Susan Badalian and Naira Bulghadarian YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenian law-enforcement authorities have opened more than a dozen criminal cases against participants of daily opposition demonstrations...
View ArticleFormer Government Supporters Continue Civil Disobedience in Bid to Dethrone...
YEREVAN –– Activists affiliated with the “I Have Honor” and “Armenia Alliance” parliamentary opposition blocs have been engaged in a series of civil disobedience actions and protests since May 1, as...
View ArticleIsrael Should Not Fear Turkey in Recognizing Armenian Genocide
By Israel W. Charny Clearly, our hearts and minds are deeply concerned with the murdering hells of war crimes or crimes against humanity — that in my professional language as a genocide scholar are one...
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Book Release and Reading of Tenny Arlen’s Book of Armenian Verse
LOS ANGELES — On Friday, May 20, at 6 p.m., (PST), the release of Tenny Arlen’s book of Armenian verse entitled Կիրքով ըսելու՝ ինչո՞ւ հոս եմ (To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?) will take place in...
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Primate Pays Tribute to Late Dr. Vartan Gregorian at Carnegie Hall Memorial
By Florence Avakian NEW YORK — It was a memorial tribute to an Armenian individual who embodied the best in education, scholarship, compassion and philanthropy. “What a voyage I have been on,” he once...
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Eastern Diocese Honors Zarmine Boghosian for 50 Years as an Educator and Writer
By Florence Avakian It was a special evening of paying tribute to a dedicated individual, Zarmine Boghosian, the former principal and teacher at the Holy Martyrs Armenian Day School for decades, and a...
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Photojournalist Documents Artsakh Home Front
NEW YORK — When war strikes, we watch television or read the newspaper, hearing about attacks, geopolitics, international relations, and intervention by world powers. The 44-day war in Artsakh was no...
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Shahka Lokhmahs Traditional Armenian Cookies from the Armenian Museum Website
WILLIMANTIC, CT — This treasured family recipe for Shahka Lokhmahs (sugar cookies) from Ruth Hartunian-Alumbaugh is featured at the Armenian Museum of America website. It is a recipe her beloved...
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Frankfurt Remembrance: Reflections on the Lausanne Treaty
FRANKFURT — This year’s central commemoration of the Armenian Genocide was held in the historic Paulskirche in Frankfurt, organized by the Diocese of the Armenian Church in Germany, the Central Council...
View ArticleArmenian Night at the Pops to Feature Violinist Diana Adamyan
BOSTON — The Friends of Armenian Culture Society will present the 69th annual Armenian Night at the Pops on Wednesday, June 8 at 8 p.m. This year, violin sensation Diana Adamyan will appear as soloist...
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Yaron Weiss: ‘Come to Artsakh!’
YEREVAN — Yaron Weiss is an Israeli pro-Armenian activist. He was born in 1976, in Israel, to a family from Hungary. Currently he lives in the small town of Kefar Weradim in the north of Israel with...
View ArticleArmenian Opposition: What Sincerity, What Credibility?
By Ara Toranian Yes, of course, the protest movement initiated almost a month ago by the opposition alliance is mobilizing people. Probably around 15,000 people participated in the May 9 demonstration,...
View ArticleArmenia in Deadlock: Looking Behind the Labels
The catastrophic aftermath of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War has brought tremendous sense of loss to all Armenians, and many things remain broken since then. I have never, in the past decade, seen...
View ArticleCharles de Foucauld, Witness to the Hamidian Massacres, Canonized
PARIS — On Sunday, May 15, the Trappist monk Charles de Foucauld was canonized by Pope Francis. Explorer and geographer with a dissolute life, from a family of the old French nobility, he was born...
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