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Editorial: US Armenian Lobby's Might Mischievous Exaggeration
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CYPRUS PRESIDENT OF PARLIAMENT | ||
Friday 27 November at 8:30 pm (not at 8:00pm) - The Armenian National Committee of Cyprus invite the Armenian community and friends to a gathering where the President of The House of Representatives Marios Garoyian will be declared "Hay Tad Personality of 2009". The event which will take place at the Latsia Municipal Theatre is under the auspices of the Armenian Representative in the House of Representatives, Vartkes Mahdessian. Also honouring with their presence are ARF Dashnaktsoutiun Bureau member Megerdich Megerdichian, Lebanese Member of Parliament Hagop Pakradouni and former Lebanese Minister Alen Tabourian. | ||
Editorial - The Slave Trade (Myth or Reality) | ||
London November 25, 2009 - Abu Baker al-Ghannoum was absentmindedly playing with the contents of the sackful of brightly coloured glass beads, and contemplating on the commercial transaction of the afternoon. He had done good. Earlier in the day he had done a deal with some Arab people, who were looking to hire workers to work in a far away country. The glass beads were for his efforts in convincing his people to agree to sign the employment agreement. He was satisfied that he had managed to get rid of most of the weak and useless men and women of the tribe. Years of feuding with neighbouring tribes for cattle, produce and young girls had taken their toll from his able-bodied warriors. It was so hard to feed his tribe. The Arabs, in addition to his sack of beads, had given to each of the families of the departing workers gifts, which would buy them food for the coming months until it was time to harvest their meagre crops. | ||
A LONDON INVITATION | ||
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WHO IS AN ARMENIAN? | ||
Tamar Kevonian, Asbarez.com - 20/11/2009 - “What if an Armenian was Muslim or Bahai, or Hindu?” the question is asked one day during a conversation about ethnic identity and why it was tied into religious identity. | ||
CYPRUS TALKS CONTINUE WITH "GOOD WILL" | ||
FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE 23.NOV.09 - President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias has underlined that efforts to reunify Cyprus and its people will continue with persistence and good will. In an address at a mass at the Armenian Church in Nicosia, read out by Deputy Minister to the President Titos Christofides, President Christofias stressed “we remain committed to our goals for the creation of a peaceful, united and prosperous homeland for all its citizens, Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Maronites, Armenians and Latins”. He reiterated that “efforts to reunify Cyprus and its people will continue with persistence and good will, asserting our rights based on principles. We pursue a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation with a single sovereignty, citizenship and international personality as well as unified economic institutions”. Referring to the Armenian people living in Cyprus, he said that “tight bonds of friendship and common struggles describe the historic paths of Greek Cypriots and Armenians in our country”. “Cyprus and its people have always been present to the important historic times of the Armenian people”, he said. The Cypriot President recalled that Cyprus was the first European state, which adopted a resolution recognising the Armenian Genocide. The religious groups in Cyprus, he said, are an important part of Cyprus and enrich its multicultural society. President Christofias reassured that the government does its utmost to contribute to maintaining he religious groups` identities. | ||
SOURP ASDVADZADZIN CHURCH | ||
Alexander-Michael Hadjilyra - Nicosia - The Armenian cathedral of Sourp Asdvadzadzin in Nicosia celebrated its name day on Sunday, 22 November. On this joyous occasion the Church invited a number of officials and heads of other denominations. Present at the celebrations was Undersecretary to the President, Dr. Titos Christophides - representing the President - the Speaker of the House of Representatives Marios Garoyian, the Armenian MP Vartkes Mahdessian and his wife Maggie, the Ambassadors of Germany, Greece and Iran, the Mayoress of Nicosia - Eleni Mavrou - and representatives of DI.SY. and EVRO.KO. Representing the Archbishop of Cyprus was Chorepiscopus of Mesaoria, Gregorius. Also present were the Archbishop of the Maronites, Youssef Soueif, and the Anglican Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf, Michael Lewis. The Badarak was celebrated by Apegha Torkom Donoyian. | ||
After the Badarak and the madaghorhnek were concluded, Deacon Dr. Antranik Ashdjian took the floor to welcome the honoured guests to the celebrating church, after which, Archbishop Varoujan spoke of the history of the Armenian Church in Cyprus, the cordial relations between Greek-Cypriots and Armenian-Cypriots, and wished for peace in our island. The Undersecretary to the President stressed the role of Cyprus in welcoming the refugees of the Armenian Genocide, and re-affirmed the government’s solidarity to the Armenian-Cypriot community. The Speaker of the House - Marios Garoyian - stressed the importance of the Armenian Church and our moral obligation for the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the justice both Armenians and Cypriots deserve, criticising Turkey for its denialist policy and aggression. The final message came from Mesaoria Chorepiscopus after which a reception followed at the Armenian Prelature. Watch Marios Garoyian's speech here | ||
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ARMENIAN FINANCIAL MARKET-FIRST TWO WEEKS OF NOVEMBER | ||
STOCK MARKET Armenian equities market showed some activity in the last two weeks after a month break. CORPORATE BOND MARKET Corporate bonds market experienced liquidity decline in the first two weeks of November 2009. FX MARKET The trading volume in local FX market increased two-fold in these two weeks of November 2009. ECONOMY HIGHLIGHTS -Gross agriculture production in Armenia in September grew by 29.2% over 2009. -The first tranche USD 60 mln of Asian Development Bank for road construction to be received by Armenia in 2010. -Russian gas import tariff for Armenia to rise by 16.8% starting April 2010. - Worley Parsons to present feasibility study of construction of new nuclear power unit to Armenian government in late Q1 2010. - Gazprom to take part in construction of Iran-Armenia oil product pipeline. - Armenia may receive credit to USD 70 mln from JICA in 2010. - International Energy Corporation, Armenia-based subsidiary of RAO UES of Russia, to invest nearly USD 38 million in Armenia in 2010-2016. - U.S. Government Provides Additional 15 Million Dollars to Armenia to Rehabilitate Main Canals. - Shevket Shaydullin: It is of strategic importance for South Caucasus Railway to get the status of the national company. FISCAL POLICY - In Jan-Sept 2009 Armenia budget revenues totalled AMD 475.3 bln or 89.1% of the revised plan. - Non-residents in Armenia to be liable for dividend taxes starting 2010. | ||
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FATHER FRANK’S RANTS - Rome & Canterbury
Rant Number 373 27 November 2009
The Church of England and the Church of Rome. Don’t be deceived. They are not just two different churches. Actually, they are as different from each other as the Carlton Club is different from the Club of Hercules. As philosophers put it, it would be a category mistake to confuse them. Mixing up things that don’t belong together – indeed, like confusing a club, an association of persons, with another kind of club, a big stick, geddit?
I once dined at the Carlton’s, in stylish St James Street, near the royal palace. An agreeable place. Good wines. Cigars. Tory fuddy daddies about – nice company. All very decent, chaps! But it never occurred to me to think the Carlton Club would make a jot of real difference to anything. Unlike Hercules, the demi-god. A hero of super-human strength and courage, armed with his fearful club. From the awful Hydra of Lerna to brave Hyppolita, Queen of the Amazons, all of Hercules’ foes knew what it was like to cross the strongest man on earth.
Anglicans who wish to quit the cosy club and to ‘pope it’, to join the formidable Catholic Church, can now do so with all comforts. Benedict XVI offers them ‘personal ordinariates’. Basically, they keep their customs and liturgies. And their married priests. Just accept papal primacy, plus Catholic doctrine as set out in the official Roman catechism, and you are on.
Benedict is a venerable old gentleman and he means well. Still, I wonder. Conversion to Catholicism for Protestants was always an awesome, traumatic step. It entailed real costs. A shaking of established usages and conventions. Forsaking the culturally familiar for the heady adventure, the strange land of the new faith. For would-be priests it meant that horrid – to Protestants – frightening thing: celibacy – making yourself into a eunuch ‘for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven’. But that was a measure of your commitment. And the new, the exotic, the aesthetic challenge is what draws converts, not the reassuringly familiar. (Think of converts to Islam. Do the strange prayers, the prostrations, the Arabic scare them off?) Really risky, man! Now it will be easier. Things will be much the same. Vicars can keep their wives. The same drawn-out Matins, the same old Evensong, the same bumbling Father John, the same parish bazaar...yawn...is that it? Not a Herculean outfit that subverts the world but...shades of the Carlton Club – without its elegance.
Right now, the scandal over the child abuse in the Irish Church is not giving Catholicism a good press. But remember that the same church which has allowed such horrors to happen is also the church of Mother Teresa, of Padre Pio, of innumerable saints and martyrs down the ages. The Inquisition, yes, but also the Church St Hildegarde of Bingen, of St Vincent de Paul, the Cure d’Ars and l’Abbe’ Pierre. Call it a paradox – it is!
The Archbishop of Canterbury, our Druid in Chief, is not pleased. The Anglicans who will opt for Rome are traditionalists. Opposed to women priests & bishops, permissive sexuality, that kind of stuff. Rowan won’t miss them. But he believes in ecumenism and he has to respond, somehow. So he has come up with a neat theological trick. By invoking a subtle distinction between first and second order questions. To simplify: the former are matters around which there is already agreement – don’t Anglicans and Catholics all believe in a Triune God, for example? The latter include questions like authority, ministry, sex and the like. Needless to say, Rowan considers the latter issues less important and so...what’s all the fuss about? Let’s agree that Christians after all are different and...vive la difference!
All right, Rowan, not quite fair but not too unfair, either. The thing is, where does the Bible come in, in your theology? For classical Anglicanism the Bible is prior to anything else – be it first or second order. The Church of England at the Reformation has rejected innovations which are ‘repugnant’ to Holy Scripture. As a female clergy clearly contradict I Timothy, chapter 2, vv. 8-15, how can you possibly justify it as an Anglican, eh?
Rowan no doubt will dismiss the poor priest as a benighted fundamentalist. I suspect he doesn’t feel quite comfortable with St Paul. I can only say I am happy to stand here also with another Paul, John Paul II, of blessed memory. In this context he spoke of things which ‘we have no authority to change’. He meant ‘not even the Pope’. An exemplary theology. What is of God, no man can alter.
Further, the Anglican club Rowan leads isn’t all that sanguine about that benchmark of belief, the Creed, either. A Christian Research survey reveals that 66% of clergy doubt the Resurrection of Christ, 56% question the Virgin Birth and 51% the uniqueness of Jesus – all things taught in the New Testament. Among female clergy confidence in the faith is even less than that of their male counterparts. Huh! I bet the Carlton Club has tighter membership rules.
In his scathing ‘Attack on Christendom’, Kierkergaard contended that to believe in God, to really love him with all your heart is to be in opposition to the world. True Christianity brings with it the striving, the conflict, the anguish that are connected with dying to the world, with following Christ on the way to the Cross. Counterfeit Christianity, on the other hand, makes things easy. He meant a bogus church which has falsified the definition of what it is to be a Christian. ‘There is family of clerical parasites that support themselves by palming off in the name of Christianity what is really after their own, cheap taste.’ The preachers of a twaddle which is conformity to the secular culture. The church of such people is a mediocrity, a lukewarm compromise - a fraudulent club to which salvation, eternity, the gates of Paradise are shut.
Some claim that, shortly before his early death, the Lutheran Kierkegaard intended to change club, to embrace Catholicism. To be a monk, maybe. The Catholic Church of his days was not quite like the post-Vatican II church, of course...
From where he is now, I imagine the great Dane looking down on our terminal state, muttering the words of the angel in the Book of Revelation to that tepid club, the Laodicean Church: “You are neither hot nor cold. Therefore I will spew you out of my mouth.’
Revd Frank Julian Gelli
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Wednesday 25 November 2009
THE ARMENIAN INSTITUTE AND THE ANATOLIA COLLEGE PRESENT
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
AT THE CROSSROADS OF FAMILY AND INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY: THE ARMENIANS OF MARSOVAN AND
By Professor Armen T. Marsoobian
Wednesday, 9 December 2009 at 7:30
Nevart Gulbenkian Hall,
(Tube: High Street Kensington)
Admission: £5; £3 for friends of Armenian Institute
Drawing upon family memoirs, letters and missionary accounts, Professor Marsoobian chronicles the interconnections between the history of his family and the history of an educational institution important in the life of the historic Armenian
Illustrating his talk with dozens of photographs and drawings from the family collection of Tsolag and Aram Dildilian, Marsoobian traces his family's history from its early days in
The growth and prosperity of the college and the Armenians of Marsovan came to a tragic end in the summer months of 1915 when the Armenian staff and students of the college, along with most of the Armenian population of the city, were sent on the death marches of the Armenian Genocide. Members of the family miraculously survived in Marsovan and witnessed the horrors of the events of 1915 to 1918.
Wine and snacks to follow the lecture.
Photograph of
Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor and Chairperson of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University in
The Armenian Institute is a London-based registered charity dedicated to making Armenian culture and history a living experience, through innovative programmes, educational resources, workshops, exhibits and performances. Its work is supported by friends, patrons and voluntary donations. For more information about the Armenian Institute or to find out about supporting the important work of the Institute, please visit our website at www.armenianinstitute.org.uk, contact us at info@armenianinstitute.org. or call 020 7978 9104. If you would like your email address to be removed from the list, please send an email with "remove" in the subject heading to info@armenianinstitute.org.uk
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