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  • Divine Liturgy And Requiem Service In Memory Of Sumgait Pogrom Victi

    DIVINE LITURGY AND REQUIEM SERVICE IN MEMORY OF SUMGAIT POGROM VICTIMS IN BEIRUT

    21:12, 2 March, 2015

    YEREVAN, 2 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. On March 1, the Surp Nshan Mother Church
    of Beirut served a Divine Liturgy, which was followed by a Requiem
    Service in memory of the Armenians who fell victim to the Sumgait
    Pogrom that took place on 27-29 February 1988.

    As the Department of Press, Information and Public Relations of the
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia reports to
    "Armenpress", among those attending the event were Armenia's Ambassador
    to Lebanon Ashot Kocharyan, Representative of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    Republic in the Near East, members of the Armenian Genocide Centennial
    Lebanon Central Committee, leaders of Armenian organizations and
    national structures, as well as MPs, public and political figures
    and journalists.

    In his speech, Armenia's Ambassador to Lebanon Ashot Kocharyan
    mentioned that the genocide perpetrated against the Armenians of
    Sumgait 27 years ago was an example of the first manifestation of
    the policy on ethnic cleansing in the territory of the Soviet Union.

    Talking about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Ambassador emphasized
    that the people of Nagorno-Karabakh were compelled to defend their
    right to live freely in a war that was imposed.

    On the same day, a Requiem Service was performed in memory of
    the innocent victims of the Sumgait Pogrom under the direction of
    Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia at the Saint Gregory
    the Illuminator Mother Temple of the Catholicosate of the Great House
    of Cilicia.

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/796133/divine-liturgy-and-requiem-service-in-memory-of-sumgait-pogrom-victims-in-beirut.html

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