The Catholicos of All Armenians received the clergymen of the Clergy Training Course


The Clergy Training Course program started last year and already the 13th group is completing the course. They spend three weeks in the monastery, participate in church services, liturgies, listen to the lectures of various clergymen and lay professionals every day, update their ritual, theological, and historical knowledge. The 14th group will arrive at the Mother See in December.

The Mother See awarded a medal to the spouses living in Greece


Ashot and Lora Tunyan were awarded with higher honors, the Order of Gregory the Illuminator for supporting the Mother See for many years, especially for their role in protecting the rights of the Armenian Church in Myanmar. This couple also donated solar electricity and water heating plants to the Mother See, took care of their installation. In the Pontifical Encyclical, the donation made by the Tunyans for the renovation of the Mother Cathedral is also mentioned.

Times of Homelessness


According to the UN, 150 million people are homeless. Most of them were forced to leave their homes as a result of conflicts, violence and other violations of human rights. Homelessness is not only a real life, but also a concept. Do attitudes affect public relations, states? Anna Sargsyan talked with candidate of philosophical sciences Armen Sargsyan.

New strategy of education and science. part 179


Hovhannes Yeranyan discussed the interdisciplinary school project "Root and Sprout" with the founder of "Supporters" NGO, candidate of pedagogical sciences Ani Manukyan, within the framework of which students do research work, discovering their own roots.

Levon Gevorgyan after the 44-day war


Lt. Col. Levon Gevorgyan, who was wounded in the 44-day war in Karvachar, started walking after a long and painstaking fight by doctors. At the very beginning, doctors even discussed the issue of amputating both of his legs. Now Levon has fully returned to life. He has been in the Armenian army since he was 17 years old. He retired after the Four Day War. From the first days of the 44-day war, he went to Karvachar with the Ashtarak combat squad, where he knew every bush and tree in detail. During that time, the combat squad had 3 casualties and 4 wounded, Levon was the fifth.

The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrated the 25th anniversary of the consecration and enthronement of the Catholicos of All Armenians


In the Mother Cathedral, the Primate of the Diocese of Argentina and Chile, His Grace Bishop Aren Shahenyan offered a Divine Liturgy of the covenant. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the consecration and enthronement of the Patriarch of All Armenians, a Republican Prayer was fulfilled after the liturgy. The sacred ceremony was presided over by the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople His Eminence Archbishop Sahak Mashalyan.

 

After the reconsecration of the Cathedral, the first episcopal ordination and consecration took place


The Catholicos of All Armenians was led in a church procession to the Cathedral to offer the Divine Liturgy and perform episcopal ordination. Four benefactors of the church were assisiting His Holiness. His Holiness was accompanied by the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople and Archbishop Nathan Hovhannisyan. The Armenian Patriarch, with prayer and blessing, granted the seven degrees of the episcopal rank on the newly ordained, preached and instructed them to take care of Christ's flock, being faithful to the teachings of the church fathers and saints. Here, six bishops were given the omophorion, which is part of the episcopal vestment.

 

The Idea of ​​the Mother Goddess from Paganism to Christianity


On September 21, the Museum of the History of Armenia opened the international exhibition entitled "Mother deity: From Anahit to Mariam", where the head and hand preserved from the bronze statue of the goddess Anahit kept in the British Museum were exhibited for the first time in Armenia. More than 60 exhibits from the collection of the History Museum of Armenia were also presented at the exhibition, which symbolize the idea of ​​the Mother Goddess, from paganism to Christianity, from stone to metal, clay and thread. The director of the History Museum of Armenia Davit Poghosyan and art critic Anahit Margaryan talked about the exhibition and the changes taking place in the Museum of History in "Artfocus" in recent years.

 

How do writers work?


Memoirs contain interesting testimonies about the creative process of writers. There are writers who write at night, drink a lot of coffee, create while standing or lying down. These facts, which are interesting to many, are important for literary studies to the extent that they can determine the artistic features of the works. How do the way and conditions of authors' creation affect literature, and do they affect it? Literary experts Hayk Hambardzumyan and Arkmenik Nikoghosyan discuss these questions in the "Parallel Readings" program.

From culture to state, from state to bread


Managing the state well also means managing the culture well, otherwise the process of decay and disintegration takes place. Different sectors become self-sufficient, collapse, political processes may go normally, but some sectors may become dead. It can lead to the death and disintegration of the state. What is a state, what creates a state? What must an individual be able to do in a state to justify his decision to live there? Anna Sargsyan talked with Doctor of Arts, Professor Mher Navoyan.

Archival documents and photographs


"Parisian Meetings" at Komitas Museum-Institute
 
The Komitas Museum-Institute presents the temporary exhibition "Parisian Meetings" dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Margarit Babayan, a pianist, singer, musicologist, public figure, a close friend of Komitas Vardapet, where about 150 archival documents and photos from the Museum of Literature and Art, 4 paintings: From the collection of the National Gallery of Armenia, documents and photographs from the Komitas Museum-Institute, as well as from the Lalua family archive. Curator, museologist, scientific secretary of the Museum of Literature and Art Marine Haroyan told Anahit Margaryan about the features of the exhibition and curatorial work in "Artfocus".

 

About one story. Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro


Ernest Hemingway's story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is perhaps one of the most influential and most discussed works written in this genre in world literature. Hemingway's characteristically simple and dialogic narrative is characterized here by brilliant structural solutions. Literary experts Hayk Hambardzumyan and Arkmenik Nikoghosyan discuss the peculiarities of the story in the "Parallel Readings" program.