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- 1. Western Diocese’s Public Lecture Series
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Western Diocese's Public Lecture Series Explore Christian Faith and Armenian Heritage
Massis Post, March 30, 20267, March 30, 20267
...“The lecture series are designed to engage both timeless questions of faith and urgent modern concerns,” explained Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, Director of Institutional Innovation, adding that “the program accords the public meaningful conversations on Armenian Christian tradition, theology, spirituality, culture, and contemporary realities.”
2026-03-31 - 2. A Critical Review of Khachkar Studios
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Data or Dogma? A Critical Review of Khachkar Studios’ ‘U.S. Armenian Christian Ecosystem’
By Hratch Tchilingirian | Asbarez, February 20, 2026
In recent months, Khachkar Studios—a media outlet affiliated with billionaire Paul B. Kazarian’s Charles & Agnes Kazarian Foundation—has flooded Armenian news cycles with claims of a “historically unprecedented” $100 million investment to revitalize the “The Failing U.S. Armenian Christian
2026-02-21 - 3. Syria’s forgotten Armenian community
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Between Political Uncertainty and Military Threats: Syria’s Forgotten Armenian Community
Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian
Armenian Weekly, 26 January 2026 MassisPost, 26 January 2026 Aravot 26 January 2026
Syria today remains a politically and militarily fragmented country, defined not only by the legacy of a devastating civil war, but also by unresolved tensions between the country’s central authorities and the Kurdish forces operating in the northern and northeastern regions. Periodic clashes, shifting alliances, and contested systems of governance continue to generate instability and uncertainty, particularly for minorities caught between competing centers of
2026-01-27 - 4. Transformation Rooted in Legacy
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Interview: Transformation Rooted in Legacy
Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian on Charting the Roadmap for the Western Diocese’s Next Century
By Sergey Arustamyan | MassisPost, October 15, 2025
... In this conversation, Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, director of the Institutional Innovation initiative, reflects on why change is essential, how it is taking shape, and what has been done since his appointment a year ago....
2025-10-20 - 5. Language: The Condition of Mrs. Arev Mudian
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Western Armenian: The Condition of Mrs. Arev Mudian
By Dr. HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN | MassisPost, Ocotober 15, 2025
In the last decade or so, the challenges surrounding the preservation and vitality of Western Armenian have grown increasingly urgent. Concerned community leader
2025-10-19 - 6. Azerbaijan’s International Image-Making Strategies and Challenges
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Azerbaijan's International Image-Making Strategies and Challenges
EVN Report, 14 January 2025 [Armenian version]
The Azerbaijani state has embarked on a concerted effort to enhance its international image following the Second Karabakh War in 2020 and especially since the subsequent ethnic cleansing of Armenians orchestrated by
2025-01-24 - 7. Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian Appointed Director of Institutional Innovation
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Western Diocese Appoints Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian as Director of Institutional Innovation to Lead Major Initiative
Massis Post, 24 October 2024 | Asbsarez, 24 October 2024
2024-12-02 - 8. Being Armenian is a package
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Hratch Tchilingirian, “’Being Armenian is a package.’ Some critical issues facing Diaspora organizations today,” in H. Oshagan and Kh. Tölölyan (eds.), The Diaspora at 100. (Boston: The Armenian Weekly), June 2024: 60-61.
2024-07-18 - 9. The Challenge of Secularism in the Middle East
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"The Challenge of Secularism in the Middle East"
Address of His Holiness Karekin II [Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia] to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, 19 January 1994, Los Angeles.
(Transcription provided by the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, Antelias-Lebanon)
2023-08-15 - 10. New hope for Turkey-Armenia to heal old wounds
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New hope for Turkey-Armenia to heal old wounds
Two historical adversaries edge towards rapprochement with an eye on opening trade routes to Central Asia and beyond
"...Now though, “We’ve come 180 degrees,” Hratch Tchilingirian, from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, told Asia Times, “and there’s a completely different context.”
2022-01-13 - 11. Why It Matters
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Why It Matters: Armenia defiant against Turkey, Azerbaijan despite shrinking borders
By Peter Aitken | Fox News November 15, 2021
... "I think we’re back to square one in the sense that what started as a conflict between self-determination of the Karabakh Armenians and the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan…30 years later, this conflict has not been resolved, even despite the war, even despite Azerbaijan saying there is no longer Karabakh conflict," Hratch Tchilingirian, a scholar and activist, told Fox News...
2021-11-20 - 12. Biden drops a genocide bomb on Erdogan
- ... – is due to take place in Istanbul after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “Turkey could spoil this conference,” Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, the German Marshal Fund’s Ankara Director, told Asia Times, ...
- 13. Karabağ’da Hristiyanlık
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Karabağ’da Hristiyanlık: Azerbaycan’ın Tarihi Yeniden Yazma Çabaları Yeni Değil
Hratch Tchilingirian, Oxford Üniversitesi
HyeTert.org, 9.12.2020 - Karabağ’da silahlı çatışma başlamadan çok daha önce, bölgenin gerçek tarihini ‘ispatlama’ çabaları, tarihçiler, siyaset bilimi uzmanları, arkeologlar, araştırmacılar ve bürokratlar için akademik ve bilimsel bir savaş alanıydı. Sovyet araştırma geleneği, özellikle de tarihin inşası süreci, oldukça yıkıcıydı ve hala da çatışan tarafların...2021-03-29 - 14. Christianity in Karabakh: Azerbaijani Efforts At Rewriting History Are Not New
- ... a holy site for pilgrims. The Albanian Church, like that of Iberia (until 608), having been established by Armenian missionaries, pledged canonical allegiance to the Armenian Church. At the wake of the ...
- 15. We have outlived empires and can build our nation's tomorrow
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We have outlived empires and can build our nation's tomorrow
CivilNet / HyeTert / Massis Post 11 November 2020
Hratch Tchilingirian, Oxford
As one of the nations in this world, whose millennia-long biography is the envy of the world, we should not allow some anomalous, self-interested forces, circles or personalities trample the national wisdom we have gained through myriads of imposed wars, destruction and displacement.
2020-11-24 - 16. A decade-long goodbye for a journey cut short
- ... of other Christ-loving holy fathers.” When in August 1999 a devastating earthquake hit Turkey’s Marmara region, killing almost 20,000 people, injuring more than 27,000 people and leaving hundreds of ...
- 17. Field of Study
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- 18. Saving the Crown Jewel
- ... some of the most venerated religious real estate and priceless antiquities in the world. This includes the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest place in Christianity where it is believed Jesus was ...
- 19. Ordination of Deaconess
- ... of women also in our church’s liturgical life,” adding, “do not be surprised, a woman could also become a servant of the Holy Altar.” (1) Deaconess Ani-Kristi has been involved in the ...
- 20. Female Diaconate
- ... the participation of women also in our church’s liturgical life,” adding, “do not be surprised, a woman could also become a servant of the Holy Altar.” (1) Deaconess Ani-Kristi has been ...
