Yesterday, Monday June 17, His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, attended the reception of His Excellency Mr. Beschoor Plug, the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Israel. His Excellency has been in Israel for four years,and has now been appointed as the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Continue Reading →
Pentecost 2019 Our Lord, after His Ascension, had ordered the Apostles to stay in Jerusalem, and promised that they would receive the Holy Spirit- which would give them strength and after which they were to be Christ’s witnesses in Judea and Samaria until the ends of the earth. Fifty days Continue Reading →
Today is the sixth anniversary of the Enthronement of His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, to the throne of St. James. We congratulate His Beatitude cordially. May our Lord continue to strengthen His Beatitude in his work.
Next week we celebrate the Feast of Ascension Day. We will celebrate on Mount of Olives, at the Chapel of Ascension according to the following schedule: Wednesday June 5, 2019: 1.15 pm ringing of the bells of St. James 1.15 pm departure from the Armenian Quarter 2.15 pm arrival at Continue Reading →
Yesterday, May 27, an agreement was signed for renovations in the Holy Sepulcher Church Click to see the scanned declaration
Sunday May 26 we celebrate the Feast of the Apparition of the Holy Cross. This feast is one of the Holy Cross Feasts of the Armenian Church, and is celebrated 28 days after Easter. In May 351, a bright light in the shape of a cross was seen over Jerusalem. Continue Reading →
Communiqué Generous donation of Mr. Harout Ayvazian from Los Angeles, California, of $ 600,000 to the Armenian Patriarchate. Mr. Ayvazian visited the Holy Places with his family and participated in the Christmas celebrations and the Epiphany of our Lord Jesus Christ at the Baptismal site at Jordan River. The pilgrimage Continue Reading →
We would like to thank Mr. Hagop Jack Yurejian for his generous donation of $20,000 to the Armenian Sts. Tarkmanchatz Armenian School. Mr. Yurejian was born in Jerusalem himself, and he decided to financially support the Armenian school he attended in his childhood. His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, the Armenian Continue Reading →
On Easter morning the first witnesses of Christ’s Resurrection were women, one of which was Mary Magdalene. Mary Magdalene at first did not recognize Christ, but when He calls her name, she does. Two people, one of them being Clopas (according to some early Christian tradition the brother of St. Continue Reading →