“Armenian art is not something isolated. It is woven into a global network. It needs to be understood for what makes it specifically Armenian, while also being art of global significance.”
The speaker was Dr. Helen C. Evans, addressing an enthusiastic crowd of close to a hundred on Thursday, June 7, at the Diocesan Center in New York.
A nation’s cultural cleansing is a destruction of its history, a “rape of its culture,” stated Tasoula Hadjitofi, on Friday, February 2, to an overflow crowd at the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, in New York.
What does it means to be a member of the Armenian religious minority in Turkey?
That was the focus of Dr. Christopher Sheklian’s eye-opening lecture on November 7, at the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center of the Eastern Diocese in New York before a crowd of more than seventy.
By Florence Avakian
The year 1993 was a life-changing year for Hrair Hawk Khatcherian. That year, he was told that he had lung cancer and had only 10 days “to die.” Subjected to unbearably painful treatments in the hospital, he had placed on his hospital room wall a cross and photographs of Armenia and Artsakh.
By Florence Avakian
Known as “the Gracious One” for his prolific and inspiring writings, the 12th-century Armenian Catholicos St. Nersess Shnorhali was a revered church reformer, theologian, Christian diplomat, poet and composer of exquisite hymns.
