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- 101. The Armenian Evangelical School in Anjar
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Armenian International Magazine AIM Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 52-53
The Armenian Evangelical School in Anjar
Providing a brighter future
Hratch Tchilingirian
Ara (not his real name) was four years old when a social worker brought him to the Armenian Evangelical boarding school in Anjar, the Armenian village in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. The school was already in session and the principal insisted that Ara should come at the beginning of the following year. But the social worker could not take Ara back. “You wouldn’t send him away if I told you where this child comes from,” pleaded the desperate social worker. Ara was very quiet and looked disturbed, says Rev. Nersess Balabanian, 40, who is in charge of the school. “The child’s father is a drug addict, his mother is a prostitute and he lives in a tiny room with two other little siblings,” explains Balabanian, “we couldn’t possibly return this child to that place.” They took him in.
2000-01-01 - 102. 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 - 103. When Small is Big: Armenian Evangelicals
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 35-38; 43.
WHEN SMALL IS BIG
Armenian Evangelicals Render a Century and a Half of Service
By Hratch Tchilingirian
Numbering only 50 to 70,000 around the world, Armenian Evangelicals are among the most organized, visible, and active of the world’s eight million-plus Armenians. Despite their small numbers and their periodic conflicts with the Armenian Apostolic Church, the legitimacy, value and mission of the Armenian Evangelical Church has become indisputable over the last century and a half. Just the fact that it is politically incorrect to call them Protestants – they’re Evangelicals – attests to a change of attitude and acceptance; they are no longer seen as “protesters” but as believers genuinely involved in Christian mission and evangelization.
2000-01-01 - 104. Integration: The Point of No Return
- ... university graduates are less likely to affiliate with political parties, which still enjoy large clout in Lebanese politics, and have found greater opportunities and success in main stream Lebanese society. ...
- 105. Catholicosal Elections in Armenia
- ... which would then elect one of the three most favorable ones. If this would have happened, we would not have had this kind of dirty politics in this whole process and we would have had a more spiritually-centered ...
- 106. Back In Karabakh: Church Celebrates 10th Anniversary
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM), Volume 10, Number 10, October 1999, pp. 48-51
Back In Karabakh
Diocese of Artsakh Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Re-establishmentBy Hratch Tchilingirian
The Diocese of Artsakh celebrates the 10th anniversary of its re-establishment in Mountainous Karabakh. Under the most trying circumstances, the Diocese was officially reopened in the spring of 1989 with a special encyclical by Catholicos Vazgen I of All Armenians, and with the appointment of Bishop Barkev Martirossian as Primate. (He became an Archbishop in June 1999).
1999-10-01 - 107. Two Different Islands
- ... and Britain is providing some £500,000 assistance to Armenia this year. In an ever-expanding global politics, economic position and viability has become the ultimate bottom line of diplomacy and interstate ...
- 108. 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 - 109. 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 - 110. The End of a Journey: Catholicos Karekin I
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) July 1999, Volume 10, Number 7, pp 29-33
The End of a Journey
Karekin I, Catholicos of All Armenians, 1995-1999; Catholicos of Cilicia, 1977-1995By Hratch Tchilingirian
In April 1995, Karekin I was elected the 131st Catholicos of All Armenians in Ejmiatsin by the National Ecclesiastical Assembly, arguably, the most pan-Armenian body representing almost nine million Armenians in the republic and 32 countries in the Diaspora. Unlike other elections in the last five hundred years, this one was the first in a free and independent Republic of Armenia. And for the first time in history, the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, in Lebanon, was elected Catholicos of All Armenians in Ejmiatsin.
1999-07-01 - 111. Master of Grand Theater
- ... the Shiites explain it in another way. So I feel a responsibility to explain to people that Lebanon is not just politics; Lebanon has its cultural, artistic and social values, which can spread throughout ...
- 112. An Arab Historian and His Cause
- ... recognition. "The Armenians are not doing enough to teach or present their case to the Arab world," complains Zahredeen. There are variations in the politics, culture and administrative apparatus of ...
- 113. Clash of Values
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) December 1998, Vol. 9, No. 12, p. 11
[Editorial by Hratch Tchilingirian
CLASH OF VALUES
The West's patronizing, sometimes arrogant attitude has contributed to the frustration of groups who are tired of "transitions"The World Council of Churches (WCC) which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month (see page 62), has come under strong criticism-particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union-by high ranking leaders of the Orthodox churches that follow the Byzantine tradition. Among them, Russian Patriarch Alexei II has warned that the continued participation of the Russian Orthodox Church in WCC will depend on the organization's "total reconstruction." The Russian Orthodox Church is the biggest in the WCC's 332 mainly Protestant (and leading Orthodox) member churches. The Georgian Orthodox Church has already withdrawn its membership and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is expected to withdraw this month.
1998-12-01 - 114. Fair, Free… And Oil
- ... when coverage focused mostly on democracy in Armenia. the focus this time was more on the oil and pipeline politics in the region and Armenia's "negative" impact on regional economic developments vis-a-vis ...
- 115. Aram I on Faith and the Homeland
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Armenian International Magazine (AIM) April-May 1998, pp. 32-36
ARAM I ON FAITH AND THE HOMELAND
By Hratch Tchilingirian
The Head of the Great House of Cilicia speaks about his commitment to education, fellowship, service and outreach, in the hope that they will lead his flock back to greater spirituality and a cohesive commitment to Armenia. Does the absence of church unity stand in the way?
1998-04-01 - 116. Playing with Tigers
- ... we are spoiled. We have not seen any political difficulties for a long time. The Far Easterners in general are not really interested in politics. Their main aim is business and how to increase productivity. ...
- 117. Religious discourse and the church in Mountainous Karabakh
- ... search for industry and new partners" in Ian Bremmer and Ray Taras (eds.) Nation and Politics in the Soviet Successor States, Cambridge University Press. Lalayan, Yervant (1988) Collected Works Vol. ...
- 118. Le conflit du Haut-Karabagh provoque des changements majeurs en Arménie
- ... its oil politics “as skillfully as possible.“ In the meantime, it would have a chance to improve its military-political structures and train a more mobile and professional army. More recently, ...
- 119. Nagorno Karabakh: transition and the elite
- ... in Levon Chorbajian et al (eds) The Caucasian Knot: the history and geo-politics of Nagorno-Karabagh (Zed Books, London, 1994). Nora Dudwick, 'The case of the Caucasian Albanians: ethnohistor y and ethnic ...
- 120. New Structures, Old Foundations. State Capacities for Peace
- ... in recent years. The ‘Karabakh factor’ in Armenian politics Armenia also suffers from ‘charismatic authority’, the ramifications of which have played out differently. The ‘Karabakh card’ has been ...