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- 141. Shooting Again: Assassination Attempt Shakes Up Karabakh and Armenia
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM), April 2000, Volume 11, No. 4, pp. 20-21
Shooting Again
Unsuccessful Assassination Attempt Shakes Up Karabakh and ArmeniaBy HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN
Less than six months after the assassination of eight top Armenian officials, the president of Karabakh narrowly escaped an attack on his life.
2000-04-01 - 142. Witness of His Time: Krikor Norikian
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) Vol. 11, No. 3, March 2000, pp. 62-64
Witness of His Time
The Oppressed and the Rejected Find Dignity and Respect in NorikianBy Hratch Tchilingirian
"The different faces I paint have the same agony and suffering," says Krikor Norikian, 58 -- popularly known as Norik -- who is one of the Diaspora’s most well-known painters. "I don’t know where that agony comes from. It’s from nature, from human suffering. It’s from my past, my family and my life experience. It might come from a specific source, but it is universal."
2000-03-01 - 143. Medieval Lobbyists
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) February 2000, Volume 11, No. 2, pp. 54-56
Medieval Lobbyists
AUB Professor Explores Armenian-Moslem Relations in the Middle East
By HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN
The political and cultural history of the Armenians in the Near East is one of the least explored areas within traditional Armenian Studies. But Seta Dadoyan, Professor of Cultural Studies, Philosophy and Art at the American University of Beirut (AUB), has created a new interest in the subject — with a particular focus on its contemporary significance.
2000-02-01 - 144. Seven Years in Prison:
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) February 2000, Volume 11, No. 2, pp. 50-52
Seven Years in Prison
“If one suffers, but does not believe, life becomes meaningless.”Compiled by Hratch Tchilingirian
Father Manuel Yergatian, a 33-year-old priest and citizen of Turkey was arrested in October 1980 while preparing to leave Istanbul en route to Jerusalem. He was charged with anti-Turkish activities in the years when various acts of political violence against Turks by Armenians were reported. His whereabouts were not known and no one was able to contact him. Archbishop Shnork Kalustian, Patriarch of Istanbul, was called to testify before the military court. The Turkish press reported on the trial of the “priest who is Turkey’s enemy.” The US State Department turned down a request to intervene in the case. Amnesty International did investigate the arrest. After his conviction, Yergatian served nearly seven years in Turkish prisons. Since his release, he has remained silent about his ordeal. At this writer's request, Fr. Yergatian, 46, describes for the first time and in great detail, what happened when he was arrested and convicted on charges of inciting terrorism.
2000-01-01 - 145. Jubilee in the Holy Land
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) February 2000, Volume 11, No. 2
FOCUS OF THE MONTH
Jubilee in the Holy Land
Pilgrimage of the Century Includes Top Government, Religious LeadersBy HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN
early 1000 Armenians from around the world gathered in the Holy Land during the week of January 17-24 to celebrate the bi-millennial jubilee of Christ’s Nativity in Bethlehem. The celebrations were headed by the top leadership of the Armenian Apostolic Church with the participation of Armenian President Robert Kocharian, who led a 30-member state delegation to Palestine and Israel for the occasion.
2000-02-01 - 146. Haigazian University in Lebanon
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Armenian International Magazine AIM Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 52-53
HAIGAZIAN UNIVERSITY IN LEBANON
Hratch Tchilingirian
One of the most valuable contributions of the Armenian Evangelical Church and its commitment to education is the establishment of the Haigazian University in Beirut. After four decades, it remains the only Armenian institution of higher education in the Diaspora. Haigazian — which has graduated over 1,600 students since its founding in 1955 — is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education of Lebanon and is a member of the Association of International Colleges and Universities. It offers 19 undergraduate and four graduate degree programs.
2000-01-01 - 147. The Armenian Evangelical Union of the Near East
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Armenian International Magazine AIM Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 52-53
The Armenian Evangelical Union of the Near East
Coping with the effects of the war
Hratch Tchilingirian
Established in 1924, the Lebanon-based Armenian Evangelical Union of the Near East is one of the oldest among the five Unions that comprise the Armenian Evangelical Church. It is a union of over two dozen churches and congregations in seven countries in the Middle East and one church in Australia, as the origin of the Sydney church is traced back to Lebanon and Syria.
2000-01-01 - 148. The Armenian Evangelical School in Anjar
- ... 19th century Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire. “We are here as the representatives of the Christian Hilfsbund in the Orient, a joint German-Swiss Mission,” explains Gottfried Spangenberg, the ...
- 149. The Evangelicals in Armenia: On the Road to Pluralism
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Armenian International Magazine AIM Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 52-53
The Evangelicals in Armenia: On the Road to Pluralism
By Hratch Tchilingirian
Reverend Movses Janbazian of the Armenian Missionary Association of America reminisces about his various relief missions to Armenia.
2000-01-01 - 150. When Small is Big: Armenian Evangelicals
- ... they are no longer seen as “protesters” but as believers genuinely involved in Christian mission and evangelization. History The founding of the Armenian Protestant church goes back to the 19th century ...
- 151. Integration: The Point of No Return
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) December 1999 Volume 10, No. 12, pp. 46-48
Integration
The Point of No ReturnBy Hratch Tchilingirian
After the 17-year devastation of the Lebanese civil war, Arthur Nazarian, 48, has been assigned, arguably, the most thankless job in the Lebanese government. The Beirut-born industrialist is both Minister of Tourism and Minister of the Environment.
1999-12-01 - 152. The Historical Present
- ... at the Louvre in Paris. Sourouzian’s groundbreaking research has led her to document over 500 ancient Egyptian royal statues from the 19th Dynasty (1320-1200 BC), including those of Ramses the Great ...
- 153. Catholics Elect New Patriarch
- ... movement” gained ground among the “liberal elements” of the Armenian Apostolic Church. However, it was only in the 19th century that the Armenian Catholic Church was formally organized as a separate ...
- 154. A New Beginning: Catholicos Garegin II
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM), November 1999, Vol. 10, No. 11, pp. 24-25
A New Beginning
Catholicos Garegin II Faces the Task of Healing and Leading the ChurchBy HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN
The Armenian Apostolic Church elected the 132nd Catholicos of All Armenians on October 27. Archbishop Garegin Nersissian, Vicar of the Ararat Diocese, succeeded Catholicos Karekin I, who passed away in June after serving for only four years as the head of the 1700-year old Church.
1999-11-01 - 155. Catholicosal Elections in Armenia
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CATHOLICOSAL ELECTIONSpecial Daily Coverage
By Hratch Tchilingirian, Managing Editor of Armenian International Magazine (AIM)
25 October 199926 October 1999
27 October 1999
1999-10-25 - 156. Back In Karabakh: Church Celebrates 10th Anniversary
- ... was in Bardav, then at the monastery of Amaras, then at the historic monastery of St. Hagop. In the 12th-13th centuries, it was moved to the monastery of Gandsasar. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ...
- 157. Electing A Holy Father
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Armenian International Magazine Volume 10, Number 10, October 1999, p. 11
[Editorial by Hratch Tchilingirian]
Electing A Holy Father
Will the new Catholicos heal, build and lead the Church into the next century?At the end of October over 450 delegates from around the world, elected by their respective communities, will convene the National Ecclesiastical Assembly (NEA), the Armenian Church’s highest body of authority, to elect a new Catholicos of All Armenians.
1999-10-01 - 158. Looking to the East: Chant Avedissian
- ... Leighton House Museum in London, compares Avedissian’s trajectory and contribution to those “19th century writers, who revolutionized declining Arabic literature by not only translating international novels ...
- 159. Instilling the Armenian Spirit
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) July 1999, Volume 10, Number 7, pp 53-54
Instilling the Armenian Spirit Armenian Education in a Transient Community
By Hratch Tchilingirian
The tiny Armenian community in the United Arab Emirates, numbering less than 2000, has a collective history of about 20 years. Unlike most established Diaspora communities around the world, the most prevalent characteristics of this community is its transient nature.
1999-07-01 - 160. Crisis Without Borders: Armenian Media in the Middle East
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) July 1999, Volume 10, Number 7, pp 37 & 39
Crisis Without Borders
The Media in the Middle EastBy Hratch Tchilingirian
In the old days, when things looked bleak in the Diasporan communities of the West, everyone looked to the Middle East for hope. There, Armenians spoke, read, wrote Armenian. There, the future of the language and the culture was guaranteed.
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