Faith Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:00:47 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Fear of erasure fuels Artsakh exodus /home/international/item/35982-fear-of-erasure-fuels-artsakh-exodus /home/international/item/35982-fear-of-erasure-fuels-artsakh-exodus

In a chilling reminder of the Nazi blitzkrieg that ripped through Europe in the 1940s, Azerbaijan, with a lightning military offensive on Sept. 19, dealt a fatal blow to Artsakh (also called Nagorno Karabakh), a disputed territory within its boundaries, sending almost all of its 120,000 Christian Armenians into forced exile.

]]> skorah@catholicregister.org (Susan Korah) International Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:17:17 -0400 Armenian bishops elect former U.S. pastor as patriarch /home/international/item/33519-armenian-catholic-bishops-try-again-to-elect-patriarch /home/international/item/33519-armenian-catholic-bishops-try-again-to-elect-patriarch

ROME -- The bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church elected Archbishop Raphaël François Minassian, the ordinary for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe, to be their church's new patriarch.

]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:03:16 -0400 Protected zone for minorities sought in Iraq, Syria /home/international/item/20016-protected-zone-for-minorities-sought-in-iraq-syria /home/international/item/20016-protected-zone-for-minorities-sought-in-iraq-syria

AMMAN, Jordan - A call for an area to protect Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq is gathering pace even as April marks the centenary of the 1915 genocide of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christians.

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VATICAN CITY - A 10th-century Armenian monk has been named among the doctors of the Church.

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