Armenian International Magazine (AIM) December 1995

"Collaboration First Unity Later, Maybe"
Two new Catholicoses in One Year

by Hratch Tchilingirian

The Catholicossal election that was held in Etchmiadzin, April 3-5 of this year, was an event with many historical firsts. The National Ecclesiastical Assembly (NEA), the highest legislative body of the Armenian Church, convened for the first time in 40 years. The election took place for the first time in a free and independent Armenian Republic. For the first time in history, the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia was elected Catholicos of All Armenians in Etchmiadzin.

Nairi (Beirut), 4 November 1995

Hratch Tchilingirian's interview with Emma Gabrielyan, Secretary of the Parliament of Mountainous Karabakh

[in Armenian]

War Report, No. 34, June 1995
(c) Copyright: The Institute for War and Peace Reporting 1995

Edging Towards the Big Agreement

by Hratch Tchilingirian

The dispute between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over Nagorno Karabakh–a small enclave of 4388 square kilometres in Azerbaijan, with a population of about 150,000–is the oldest conflict in the former Soviet Union. By 1991, what started as a popular movement for self-determination in 1988 had turned into a full-scale war with far reaching political and military implications for the region. The situation in Karabakh was further complicated by the fact that both parties in the conflict--the Armenians of Karabakh and the Republic of Azerbaijan--consider Karabakh an integral part of their territory. In September 1991, the Armenians of Karabakh declared an independent Republic of Mountainous Karabakh. No state has recognised Karabakh's claim to independent statehood. While the war is not officially over, May 12, 1995 marked the first anniversary of the cease-fire in Karabakh, after six years of armed conflict and bloodshed.

The Armenian Reporter (New York), 13 May 1995

The Cilician Election and Church Unity Discussed in An Interview with Khachig Babikian, Esq. 

HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN

The following interview, conducted by the editor of Window Quarterly with Mr. Khachig Babikian, Chairman of the World General Assembly of the See of Cilicia, has been made available to a select few Armenian newspapers, including TAR Int'l 

LONDON, UK - As Antelias prepares for the election of a new Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, on April 20, 1995, this writer conducted an interview with Attorney Khachig Babikian, Chairman of World General Assembly of the Great House of Cilicia and member of the Lebanese Parliament, discussing the details of the election and the issue of church unity. 

The Armenian Reporter, 6 May 1995

"We Exist for Armenia & Etchmiadzin" Archbishop Trtrian of Antelias on Church Unity

By Hratch Tchilingirian

Beirut, Lebanon

Window View of the Armenian Church, Vol. 5, No. 3 & 4, 1995

ARMENIA AND THE VATICAN
Foreign Policy, the Armenian Church and the Diaspora

A Conversation with Vahan Papazian
Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia

by Hratch Tchilingirian

The Armenian Reporter, 22 April 1995

Cilicia See Elects Abp. Ardavast Terterian Locum Tenens

By Hratch Tchilingirian

Beirut, Lebanon

Al-Raida, Vol. XII, No. 69, Spring 1995

Book Review: Balancing the Traditional and the Modern

Azadouhi Simonian, Youth and Education (in Armenian, Beirut 1995)

The post-cold war era has been a mixed bless ing for the "new world or der". On the one hand, there is increasing inter est in social, ecological, gender and moral issues facing the world; on the other hand, nationalism and politicized religion have dominated the central stage of public discourse.