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ITAR-TASS, Russia
January 1, 2013 Tuesday 11:46 PM GMT+4
Armenian patriarch prays for wellbeing of Syrian Armenians on New Year night
YEREVAN January 1
The supreme hierarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church prayed for the
wellbeing of the Syrian Armenians on the New Year night.
"At this moment prior to the coming of the New Year that is filled
with good expectations, let's recall about our compatriots, who live
in Syria, all exiled and mourning people in our prayers," Supreme
Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II said in his
traditional televised address. "Let's pray about our relatives, who
are far away from us," he said.
"In the previous year we were alarmed with the fate of our
compatriots, who live in the Middle East and who continue to suffer
from the hardships and the troubles of the armed conflict," Garegin II
said.
"The new year in our life is marked with the presidential elections
(the presidential elections are due on February 18 - Itar-Tass)," the
Armenian catholicos recalled. "With our faith in a good, fair and
prosperous life we should make this day a good stage on the way of
promoting the stable progress and the development of our strong
homeland," the patriarch believes.
"The prayer and the desire in my soul is aimed at the new year of 2013
to be full of peace and wellbeing for our people and the whole world,"
the catholicos said.
Garegin II wished that "our believers in the homeland and in the
Armenian diaspora will live and work in the national patriotic spirit,
with the unshakable faith in the God, so that with the aid of the God
they will make our hopes and our ideas of national revival come true."
"We lived the previous year in peace, and took all the efforts to
build up our spiritual and domestic life for the sake of wellbeing and
progress of our people, we were seeking to overcome the problems,
which we were facing," the Armenian catholicos recalled.
The Armenian patriarch chanted the prayers "for our army, which
protect the borders of our homeland, and for all, who see in New Year
at their workplaces."
January 1, 2013 Tuesday 11:46 PM GMT+4
Armenian patriarch prays for wellbeing of Syrian Armenians on New Year night
YEREVAN January 1
The supreme hierarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church prayed for the
wellbeing of the Syrian Armenians on the New Year night.
"At this moment prior to the coming of the New Year that is filled
with good expectations, let's recall about our compatriots, who live
in Syria, all exiled and mourning people in our prayers," Supreme
Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II said in his
traditional televised address. "Let's pray about our relatives, who
are far away from us," he said.
"In the previous year we were alarmed with the fate of our
compatriots, who live in the Middle East and who continue to suffer
from the hardships and the troubles of the armed conflict," Garegin II
said.
"The new year in our life is marked with the presidential elections
(the presidential elections are due on February 18 - Itar-Tass)," the
Armenian catholicos recalled. "With our faith in a good, fair and
prosperous life we should make this day a good stage on the way of
promoting the stable progress and the development of our strong
homeland," the patriarch believes.
"The prayer and the desire in my soul is aimed at the new year of 2013
to be full of peace and wellbeing for our people and the whole world,"
the catholicos said.
Garegin II wished that "our believers in the homeland and in the
Armenian diaspora will live and work in the national patriotic spirit,
with the unshakable faith in the God, so that with the aid of the God
they will make our hopes and our ideas of national revival come true."
"We lived the previous year in peace, and took all the efforts to
build up our spiritual and domestic life for the sake of wellbeing and
progress of our people, we were seeking to overcome the problems,
which we were facing," the Armenian catholicos recalled.
The Armenian patriarch chanted the prayers "for our army, which
protect the borders of our homeland, and for all, who see in New Year
at their workplaces."