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Islamized Armenians are baptized and learning the language - diaspora minister
14:14, 25.12.2014
YEREVAN. - The Ministry of Diaspora of Armenia continues to carry out
activities with the Islamized and clandestine Armenians.
Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakopyan told the aforesaid to reporters,
but she added that, for understandable reasons, this work is not
widely presented.
"But we are pleased with the results. The Government of Armenia helps
them visit the historical homeland.
"Moreover, an exception is made for the [respective] people over the
age of 20 to be permitted to participate in the [ministry's] Come Home
[motherland visiting] program, which is intended for
[Diaspora-Armenian] teenagers.
"Two of them were not only baptized, but they stayed in Armenia to
learn Armenian. Later, they will return to Tigranakert [i.e., today's
Diyarbakir, Turkey] to open an Armenian school there. Hundreds of
people in that region want to learn Armenian," the minister stated, in
particular.
Armenia News - NEWS.am
14:14, 25.12.2014
YEREVAN. - The Ministry of Diaspora of Armenia continues to carry out
activities with the Islamized and clandestine Armenians.
Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakopyan told the aforesaid to reporters,
but she added that, for understandable reasons, this work is not
widely presented.
"But we are pleased with the results. The Government of Armenia helps
them visit the historical homeland.
"Moreover, an exception is made for the [respective] people over the
age of 20 to be permitted to participate in the [ministry's] Come Home
[motherland visiting] program, which is intended for
[Diaspora-Armenian] teenagers.
"Two of them were not only baptized, but they stayed in Armenia to
learn Armenian. Later, they will return to Tigranakert [i.e., today's
Diyarbakir, Turkey] to open an Armenian school there. Hundreds of
people in that region want to learn Armenian," the minister stated, in
particular.
Armenia News - NEWS.am