December 7, 2025, marks 37 years since the 1988 earthquake struck Armenia. The excerpt here, from The Torch Was Passed (1998), recounts how the Armenian-American community came together in those early days to focus on alleviating the suffering in their homeland.
December 7, 2025, marks 37 years since the 1988 earthquake struck Armenia. The excerpt here, from The Torch Was Passed (1998), recounts how the news broke to the Armenian-American community, and how the world replied in the immediate aftermath.
On Friday evening, November 21, the faithful of Sts. Sahag and Mesrob Church of Providence, RI, rejoiced in the Installation Service of their new pastor. Diocesan Primate Bishop Mesrob Parsamyan led the service that welcomed Fr. Sevak Gabrielyan and his family to the community.
Last Sunday, in a gesture of support for Christian unity and Christian minorities, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV met and prayed with His Beatitude Archbishop Sahak II, the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Holy Mother-of-God.
On the evening of November 22, some 225 guests filled the grand ballroom of Macaluso’s in New Jersey to honor 12 remarkable individuals: three bishops, seven priests, a deacon/music director, and a lay minister—all of whom answered God’s call to serve the Armenian Church
