Armenian Christmas at St. Vartan's Cathedral As It Kicks Off 50Th Year
JANUARY 20, 2018 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXVIII, NO. 26, Issue 4521 $ 2.00 NEWS The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 INBRIEF Armenian Organization Armenian Christmas at St. Vartan’s Attacked on Christmas Eve in Brussels Cathedral as it Kicks off 50th Year BRUSSELS, Belgium (Panorama.am) — Unidentified people opened fire at the Office “Sahakyan Union” of the Armenian community in NEW YORK — Temperatures in New Schaerbeek neighborhood of Brussels, York City approached zero degrees Ermenihaber reported, adding the incident took Fahrenheit on Saturday, January 6. But place the night of January 5. According to the inside the city’s St. Vartan Armenian source, nobody was injured during the attack, and Cathedral, worshippers were warmed by only the door and windows of the building were the celebration the Feast of the Nativity damaged. The organization does not operate cur- and Theophany of Our Lord Jesus Christ — rently. informally called “Armenian Christmas.” It is believed the attack in the mostly Turkish- Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate populated district of the Belgian capital was moti- of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of vated by nationalism, with the source citing the America (Eastern), celebrated the Divine date of the assault conducted on the eve of the Liturgy and delivered a sermon that Christmas. touched on the theme of peace, as it relates The Istanbul-based Agos daily wrote that the to the story of Christ’s birth, to the spiritu- area was a scene of violence six years ago, when al atmosphere of the church, and to press- Armenian and Assyrian organizations in the dis- ing concerns of the world today.
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