Author Anna Tamrazyan

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 Armenian Apostolic Church commemorated one of the founders of the church, Apostle Thaddeus and one of the first Christian martyrs, Virgin Sandukht. On that occasion, with the blessing of Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, the relic of St. Thaddeus the Apostle was taken to St. Thaddeus Church. It was he who converted the virgin Princess Sandukht, who was imprisoned by her father, King Sanatruk, and then ordered to kill her. St. Sandukht is considered the first Armenian Christian martyr.

Alen Gevorgyan, a member of Vanadzor's Youth Center, took first place in the "Open Georgia" international karate tournament held in Georgia. Allen has now been named to the national team. At the karate tournament, the students of Youth Center also won silver and bronze medals. 3 out of 4 participants returned with a prize.

In the Kecharis Monastery of Tsaghkadzor, on the Feast of the Transfiguration, with the blessing of the Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, a granting of the Acolytes was performed before the liturgy. The Primate of the Kotayk Diocese awarded 43 people of different ages and professions with degrees. They have been serving in various churches of Kotayk diocese for years.

200 children participate in the Camp, which is being held for the 6th time, 60 of them are children of displaced families from Artsakh. For a week, they train, play, participate in competitions and talk in the church yard. Father Hovsep Sargsyan and Father Yervand Babayan are responsible for the proper implementation of the camp agenda.

More than 100 young people who took part in the Artsakh war took part in the "Information Technology Training Courses" program, which was implemented by the "Thinkbeat" charitable organization with the support of the "Henk" nationwide charitable foundation. The program is for volunteers who participated in the 44-day war, soldiers injured or disabled as a result of the war, relatives of the dead, members of families forcibly displaced from Artsakh.

Under the chairmanship of the Catholicos of All Armenians, the 2023-2024 academic tear closing ceremony of the Gevorgian Seminary and the Vazgenian Seminary of Sevan took place. His Holiness the Patriarch noted that it is possible to overcome the trials that plagued Armenia only by relying on God and national unity, keeping the faith strong, strengthening and elevating our life with Christian values ​​and establishing it in the fields of justice, free from divisions and collapses, indifference, soulless and superficial mentality. He urged the future churchmen to establish the graces of love, hope, and faith in the hearts of Armenians through their service.

The book by Ruben Margaryan, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, a lawyer, is a religious detective whose events take place in our time. At the core of the story is the story of the disappearance of the magician, about which the hero of the book begins the investigation. Before writing the book, the author lived in the Mother See for some time with the permission of His Holiness the Patriarch and got to know the life of the clergy.

On the initiative of the Armenian Relief Fund of the Armenian Orthodox Church, a therapeutic horticultural area will be created in the Botanical Garden of Yerevan. On this occasion, a running competition was organized, the participation fees of which were directed to the establishment of the area. Runners with children first took part in a fun run of 1 km, and then in a 5 km race for adults.

Karo Movsisyan, a 7-year-old student of the chess class of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and AGBU Nork Youth Center, took an honorable position in the Armenian chess championship for under eight-year-olds. The class has fifty chess players in different age groups. They participate in national and international competitions. There are educational and amateur groups.