Cameraman Tigran Minasyan

Edik Ghabuzyan, font creator, founder of Granish non-Latin typefaces and typography tells about the creation and development of Armenian typography and computer typefaces.

 

In 1974, the reader received the first ever book on the heroic battle of Sardarapat written by Robert Karayan “The Sun is Beautiful on the Sunset”. The novel was abridged, yet after almost ten years the author managed to publish it fully entitled “Salvation”. The jubilee of May heroic battles are the most important to revalue the bravery of the author.

On May 26, Catholicos of All Armenians received the Minister of Defense Davit Tonoyan. The Minister addressed the program targeting the enhancement of Church-Army relations. The Armenian Patriarch assured that the clergy will continue to stand next to the defender of the Motherland just as it has always been in the past, the Mother See will continuously support the Armenian Army through different social, education program, assisting the freedom fighters and wounded soldiers. 

 

Nare Bejanyan is an alpinist, she returned to Armenia from Doni Rostov. She confesses that it’s not easy to live in Armenia; she is often distressed. When she is ready to go back, the mountains come to help… 

 

On May 31, our church celebrated the commemoration day of John the Baptist and Bishop Atanagine. St. John the Baptist's cross was taken from the Mother Cathedral to Shoghakat Monastery.  

 

This year, on January 28 the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrated the Feast of Sts. Hripsime and Gayane. On the festive day, the relic of the saint was taken to the Monastery of Hripsime from the Mother See.  

 

On May 28, by the presidency of the Catholicos of All Armenians, in the open altar Trdat, a thanksgiving wish was delivered for the May heroic battles and the 100th anniversary of the First Republic of Armenia. After the prayer, the Supreme Patriarch left for Sardarapat with the leaders of Armenia and Artsakh. 

 

In recent days, social networks and online media have been publishing calls for protests addressed to the Armenian Church, the clergy of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and Catholicos of All Armenians. The authors of several protest letters published on the internet are priest who have been defrocked in previous years, who have also offered to run a protest march to solve their problems. The Mother See, as well as the members of the General Congregation, have addressed letters and videos in which they offer to solve problems in compliance with the rules adopted in the church. Why did need for this tactic of protest arise, and how do these developments relate to the context of the velvet revolution? 

Head of the Information Department of the Mother See Father Vahram Melikyan and journalist Ara Galoyan are discussing the topic. 

 

One of the most joyful priests Father Dajad Davidian passed away at the age of 84. On July 16, St. Anna and Katoghike St. Astvatsatsin Churches of Yerevan  brought the friends and relatives of the priest together to pray for his enlightened memory.