Azerbaijan delays takeover, promises to protect churches
Moscow, RussiaAP Azerbaijan on Sunday postponed taking control of a territory ceded by Armenian forces in a cease-fire agreement, but denounced civilians leaving the area for burning houses and committing what it called “ecological terror.” The cease-fire ended six weeks of intense fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region and territories outside its […]
Armenian recruits baptised before heading into war
Nagorno-KarabakhAP In a wooded area of Nagorno-Karabakh, new recruits to the war besieging the region underwent a ritual Monday they hope will help them endure the fight – baptism into the Armenian Apostolic Church. One by one, the young men in camouflage fatigues approached a priest, who dipped their clasped hands into a water-filled kettle […]
THE INTERVIEW: ARCHBISHOP AVAK ASADOURIAN
JUAN MICHEL speaks with Archbishop Avak Asadourian, primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church (See of Etchmiadzin) in Iraq and general secretary of the Council of Christian Church Leaders in Baghdad…