Seta's Armenian Blog: Armenian Church : E-newsletter Latest E-Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 22 14 September 2017

Thursday 14 September 2017

Armenian Church : E-newsletter Latest E-Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 22 14 September 2017

Diocese of the Armenian Church of the United Kingdom and Ireland

Armenian Church News

Dear E-Newsletter subscriber, please find volume 3, issue 22 of the Armenian Church News of the Diocese via the link below. Some subscribers have reported that they have not been receiving our newsletters - firstly, please check your spam folders as sometimes emailing systems erroneously put emails in there. Also in Gmail accounts, check your "Promotions" tab and transfer the newsletter that may be in there into the "Primary" inbox. If someone still cannot find their newsletters, please forward this email on to them so that they can read these instructions.

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“Paths Of Peace Religions And Cultures In Dialogue” International Peace Conference

The Conference took place in Germany, Münster and Osnabrück, September 10 -12, 2017. It was organised by Rome based Sant' Egidio International peace making organisation. With the blessings of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, His Grace Bishop Hovakim Manukyan attended the conference and presented a speech on the subject of “Christian Martyrdom, Past And Present.”
You can read the whole speech on our website

Voskan Yerevantsi
An Epic Armenian Story Released in London

An exciting new film, Voskan Yerevantsi, was premiered in London on September 5th, which is about the printing of the first Armenian Bible in Asmsterdam in 1667.The release - dubbed in English - was organised by the AGBU London Film Club, in the presence of the film's director, Hakob Papazyan. See the newsletter for more details.

Trilateral Meeting of Spiritual Leaders Held in Moscow

On September 8, a meeting of the religious leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia was held.in the St. Daniel's Patriarchal Monastery of Moscow (Russian Federation), at the invitation of His Holiness Kirill I, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

During the trilateral meeting, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians conveyed his remarks to His Holiness Kirill I, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and Sheikh ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade. Follow the link for more details and for the full text to the statement.

News from Artsakh: School Expansion in Arajamugh and a New Hhome for a Wounded Soldier from the Tufenkian Foundation

Another Wounded Artsakh Soldier Receives a House from the Tufenkian Foundation

Since 2003, the Tufenkian Foundation has implemented projects and initiatives in support of Artsakh. In April 2016, the foundation launched an urgent appeal to help the people affected by the war. Since then, with funds raised during that emergency appeal and through additional support from individual donors, the foundation provided housing support to seven soldiers—three soldiers in Martakert, one in Askeran, and one in Martuni. Read more here.

Arajamugh Celebrates School Expansion

The residents of Arajamugh celebrated the reopening of the village school on Aug. 30. Read the report here.

Biblical readings for next
Sunday, 17 September

Corinthians 1:18-24

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

19 For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”[a]

20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom;

23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks[b] foolishness,

24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Matthew 24:27-35

For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28 Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

29 “Immediately after the distress of those days

“‘the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'[a]

30 “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth[b] will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.[c]

31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.

33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it[d] is near, right at the door.

34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.

35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.