A cease-fire ended the fighting in November, but Armenia has been wracked by ongoing strife since then.
Now it s winter in Armenia. The cold weather might be brutal, but the citizens of this historically Christian nation make it through by drawing on warm traditions of faith and family.
The first recorded celebration of Christmas was in the year 336 AD when the Roman emperor Constantine declared December 25th would be celebrated as the day of Christ s birth. But more than 30 years earlier, Armenians were commemorating the birth of Christ on a different day - January 6th. And it s still celebrated that way here today.
Боевики сорвали проведение ремонта на водопроводе Горловка-Торецкое
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Почему Армянская церковь выступает за отставку Пашиняна
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Пандемия заставила обратить внимание на внутренний туризм
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Archbishop Raphael Minassian with Gia Chacón, organizer of Operation Christmas for Armenia. Photos courtesy of For the Martyrs.
CNA Staff, Jan 7, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).- Archbishop Raphael Minassian is a man of action who has little time for the formalities of ecclesiastical life.
Speaking to CNA from the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on Jan. 5, he said that he felt uncomfortable being addressed as “Your Excellency.”
“I leave everything to divine providence because I’m a very simple clergy working for the Church,” he explained. “‘Excellency,’ etc., are for other people, not for me. I am Fr. Raphael.”
Fr. Raphael has served as the bishop of Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe since 2011. He is responsible for an estimated 160,000 Armenian Rite Catholics in countries such as Ukraine, Georgia, Russia, and, of course, Armenia itself.