Bishop Hovakim Manukyan of the Diocese of The Armenian Church of the United Kingdom & Ireland, together with a group of Christian leaders, has sent a letter to the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer,...
Bishop Hovakim Manukyan of the Diocese of The Armenian Church of the United Kingdom & Ireland, together with a group of Christian leaders, has sent a letter to the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, expressing deep concern over the unlawful detention of 23 Armenians by Azerbaijan. Following the forced...
#FreeArmenianHostages Berlin, March 10, 2025 – Human rights organizations, activists, and concerned citizens gathered today at the Brandenburg Gate to demand the immediate release of Armenian political prisoners unlawfully detained in Azerbaijan. The protest, organized by the Zentralrat der Armenier in Deutschland e.V., the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV),...
On 8 March, as part of the International Women’s Day campaign, EuroClub Gyumri members met with Narine Poladyan, a khachkar (cross-stone) maker from Gyumri. Narine Poladyan is Armenia’s first female khachkar master, who continues the unique trend of Armenia’s cultural heritage. She received a business development grant from the...
On March 1, 2025, a landmark meeting took place in Amersfoort, Netherlands where youth representatives of nine Armenian Church communities of the Netherlands gathered to address the future of Armenian youth within their congregations. This significant event was presided over by Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, the Pontifical Legate of the...
The Ambassador of France to Armenia, Olivier Decottignies, who had been taking strong pro-Armenian positions, surprised everyone last week by falsely telling Armenia’s Public Radio that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was not the first Armenian leader to recognize that Artsakh belonged to Azerbaijan. Decottignies added: “Armenia has accepted, recognized...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan published an article in Armenpress news agency, which is prevented below. “The issue of regional connectivity is the one most frequently exploited or escalated by Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan says that Armenia is not fulfilling its obligations, citing the obvious fact that connection routes between Armenia and...
On 26 February, the EU-funded ‘Support for Health Resilience in the Eastern Partnership’ programme, implemented by the World Health Organisation, was officially launched in Armenia. In Armenia, this initiative aims to strengthen the country’s health resilience by addressing critical workforce challenges and expanding access to mental health support. “Investing...
Jerusalem – February 19, 2025 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5:6) With great concern, we, the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem, stand in steadfast solidarity with the Orthodox Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem in its pursuit of...
His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia, calls on President Trump to press for Azerbaijan’s release of Armenian hostages and the right Artsakh Armenians to return to their indigenous homeland. On February 6, 2025, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I sent a letter to newly inaugurated...
The following is a letter dated February 3 to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan from Peter Balakian, the author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, which was a New York Times Best Seller and winner of the Raphael Lemkin Prize. Balakian is the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer...
