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FAR’s Scholarship Program in Armenia: A Lifeline to the Future

July 31, 2019 Florence Avakian 0

YEREVAN—Education has been called the bedrock for a country’s future. For Benjamin Franklin, it was “an investment in knowledge that pays the best interest.” And for Nelson Mandela, he wrote that it has been “the […]

Nonprofit News

AMAA to Celebrate Centennial in Boston

June 27, 2019 Florence Avakian 0

PARAMUS, NJ – “We’ve got to do something,” they said, and they did, and continue to do so, declared Zaven Khanjian, Executive Director and CEO of the Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA). The “they” […]

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Bishop Daniel Findikyan’s “Antranig” Badarak in America

June 6, 2019 Florence Avakian 1

NEW YORK, NY—On May 18, the Primate of the Eastern American Diocese, Bishop Daniel Findikyan, celebrated his first Episcopal badarak in America before more than a thousand worshipers who filled every crevice of St. Vartan […]

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Musical Armenia, A Stunning Success

April 3, 2019 Florence Avakian 0

NEW YORK, NY—A sell-out crowd on Sunday, March 17 was treated to an afternoon of outstanding music by three young professional artists of concert caliber—violist Cara Pogossian, cellist Edvard Pogossian and pianist Vatche Jambazian.    […]

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People’s Prelate Honored at New York Gala

January 17, 2019 Florence Avakian 0

TERRACE ON THE PARK, NY—Hundreds of admirers of the new Prelate of the Eastern Prelacy, Archbishop Anoushavan Tanielian, were in attendance at a long-awaited, sold out gala. Guests came from Massachusetts, Chicago, Detroit, Canada, Paris […]

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Dr. Helen Evans Presents Metropolitan Museum’s ‘Armenia’ Exhibition in New York

June 21, 2018 Florence Avakian 0

“Armenian art is not something isolated. It is woven into a global network, and needs to be understood for what makes it specifically Armenian,” Dr. Helen Evans said to an enthusiastic crowd of close to […]

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The Prelacy’s ‘Musical Armenia 35’—A Thrilling Celebration

March 28, 2018 Florence Avakian 0

NEW YORK—It was a unique musical event to celebrate a special anniversary. “Musical Armenia 35,” held at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on March 18, had all the ingredients of a thrilling celebration—inspiring music […]

Headline

‘Icon Hunter’ Tasoula Hadjitofi’s Four-Decade Fight against Art Smuggling

February 19, 2018 Florence Avakian 2

NEW YORK—A nation’s cultural cleansing is a destruction of its history, a “rape of its culture,” stated Tasoula Hadjitofi, to an overflow crowd at the Zohrab Information Center of the Armenian Diocese, in New York. […]

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The ‘Tree of Life for Armenia’

January 3, 2018 Florence Avakian 1

Following a recent two-week trip to Armenia, Dr. Sam Mikaelian, an award-winning American educator and a former consultant for a national recruitment company in Illinois, enthusiastically declared that the Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR) is […]

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An Armenian Liturgical Connection with Istanbul

December 14, 2017 Florence Avakian 0

NEW YORK—What it means to be a religious Armenian minority in Turkey was the focus of Dr. Christopher Sheklian’s eye-opening and fascinating lecture on Nov. 7, at the Armenian Diocese (Eastern), before a crowd of […]

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