Archive for November, 2009

NKR Leadership Makes Boston Visit Ahead of Thanksgiving Day Telethon »

By Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN, Mass. — The prime minister of Karabagh, Ara Harutunian, and his entourage, including the charismatic Primate of Karabagh, Archbishop Pargev Mardirossian, Karabagh’s representative to the US Robert Avetisyan and policy advisor David Babayan, made a local stop at the Armenian Cultural and Educational Center.

Grandson of Cemal Pasha Makes Overture to Armenian Community »

By Alin K. Gregorian WATERTOWN, Mass. — The Armenian Cultural and Education Center on Tuesday, November 17, was packed by Armenian-Americans eager to hear the grandson of one of the three architects of the Armenian Genocide apologize for the sins of his grandfather and to reach out a hand to the community.

John Derderian Dies »

PHILADELPHIA — John Derderian died on November 9, at the age of 59.

AGBU President Berge Setrakian Participates in Third Diocesan Representative Assembly at Mother See »

ECHMIADZIN — From October 31 to November 3, the third Diocesan Representative Assembly of the Armenian Apostolic Church was held in the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin, presided over by Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, and with the participation of representatives from the Armenian Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Constantinople; Diocesan Primates [...]

Ambassador Morgenthau’s Personal Library Donated To the Armenian Genocide Museum of America »

WASHINGTON — The personal library of US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, renowned for his extraordinary efforts to bring American and international attention to the Turkish government’s deportation and massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, has been donated to the Armenian Genocide Museum of America (AGMA).