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YEREVAN. – A concert dedicated to the visit of Pope Francis starts at Republic Square of Yerevan.
The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Armeniawill preform “Celebratory Overture” by Alexander Harutyunyan. Also, the National Academic Choir of Armenia led by Maestro Hovanes Chekijian will participate in the concert.
The concert also features Adagio and “Spartacus’ Victory” from the ballet “Spartacus” by Aram Khachaturian.
Adoption of Christianity as a state religion in Armenia in 301 AD is associated with the name of Saint Gregory the Illuminator who is a saint recognized by all traditional Christian Churches, the pres service of Armenia’s Central Bank reports.
For centuries his venerated relics were spread all over the Christian world.
Lending importance to strengthening of the existing brotherly relations between Christian Churches, in 2000 His Holiness Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians paid a visit to the Roman Catholic Church and her leader, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who, in his turn, in 2001 participated in celebrations dedicated to the 1700th Anniversary of adoption of Christianity as a state religion in Armenia.
Obverse: the Monastery of Khor Virap against the Mountain Ararat and the date of Pope Francis’ visit.
Reverse: the statue of Saint Gregory the Illuminator in the niche of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican (2005, sculptor – Khachik Ghazanchyan), the Coats of Arms of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
The commemorative medal is in limited quantity and has historic-cultural value.
An exhibition dedicated to the Armenian Genocide opened in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, on April 3, reports the Armenian National Assembly’s press service.
Opening speeches at the event were delivered by President of the National Assembly Galust Sahalyan and Chairman of the House of Representatives of Nicosia Yanakis Omiru.
The Armenian parliament speaker said that the commemoration events, organized worldwide upon the Genocide Centennial Commission’s initiative, have united different nations under the slogan “I Remember and Demand”, a universal address aimed to condemn the big tragedy and all the other crimes of genocides committed ever.
“The display of these exclusive photos, featuring the tragedy of the callously committed displacement and extermination against the Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians. has a mission to keep the icon-light of memory burning and raise the society’s and especially the younger generation’s awareness of the gruesome atrocities committed in the Ottoman Empire at the last century’s beginning. Tormenting though the recollection of the tragic events may be, equally obliging is to transmit the precept ‘Never Again’ from one generation to generation. This exhibition bears witness, as it is, to our determination to remember and demand, because atrocities committed against humanity have no limitation period,” Sahakyan said.
He further thanked Mr Omiru for organizing the exhibition, as all as to those who assisted in the initiative.
In his speech, the Cypriot parliament speaker said, “The heinous crimes committed against humanity have not left the civilized world indifferent. The world press criticized that conduct of Turkey back in the 19th century. And the reports on display at this exhibition of French, Italian, British, American, Russian and Cyprus papers testify to that. Foreign officials serving in the Ottoman Empire reported their governments on the events, and many of them extended their complaint to the Turkish authorities. Those people’s testimonies and the photos portraying the horrendous scenes were later published in papers or memoirs; they are now valuable archive records and fair evidence of the awesome Turkish barbarities.”
The photos and records showcased at the exhibition were provided by the Armenian Genocide Museum- Institute.
Words fail before the pictorial work that realized the French visual artist Pascale Kolboc in memory of victims of the Armenian Genocide. There are 12 tables around the size of 180cm x 180cm, with a weight of up to 50kg.
Originally from Lyon, the artist then transmits an iconography whose value not only plastic is in any remarkable point, but for the timeless intense emotional charge it offers to look.
In this symbolic year for the Armenian people, it would welcome a gallery is very interested in this work by contacting azad999@free.fr
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Member of several associations such as IAVI (International Help Victims of incest), WORLD VISION (1st NGO sponsorship of children in the world) …., his first paintings, abstract, refer naturally to suffering against children . In 2010, the need to express 
is stronger, then she introduced the material in his works, mixing soil, clay, wood, ash, fabrics and dolls … Everything gets thick, depth. His paintings on child abuse are then exhibited in New York in the Chelsea neighborhood and Paris. In 2011, she met someone from the Armenian diaspora. He will tell him the reality of the massacre of his people. Affected by the deep horror lived, she left Armenia to meet this earth and its inhabitants, and in Lebanon. It is then obvious … convinced of the need to participate in “open up” his new series of works becomes a reflection of the terrible cruelty and injustice still experienced today by the Armenian people face the denial of the massacre of the 1915 genocide.
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– – Agora Gallery 2010 New – York
– – Espace Pierre Cardin, 2010, Paris
– – Carrousel du Louvre, 2010, Paris
– – Grand Palace, Art Capital, 2010, Paris