The last deaconess of the Armenian Church was Hripsime Sasunian, who died in 2007. A decade after her death, in 2017, ...

Movahedian called the Armenian church and Husseiniyyun "two wings" of Iranian influence in the region. For Iran, the main concern is Azerbaijan. Tehran has watched as Baku has stepped up its ...

It is still today a living place of pilgrimage for the Armenian Church. Criterion (ii): The Armenian monasteries of Iran illustrate the Outstanding Universal Value of Armenian architectural and ...

if the authorities found Armenian or Assyrian churches were baptizing new converts or preaching in Farsi, they closed the churches. Estimates of the total number of Christians in Iran vary.

Bishop Hovakim Manukyan of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of the United Kingdom & Ireland, together with a group of ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Armenian Patriarchate of Al-Quds has accused ... religious entity in a campaign aimed at diminishing the church’s “presence in the Holy Land”. In a statement on ...