City of Glendale Declares Local State of Emergency and Issues Emergency Order for Temporary Business Closures to Slow the Spread of COVID-19
Glendale, CA – On March 16, 2020, the City of Glendale issued a local emergency proclamation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to a number of measures already…
UEFA Euro 2020 postponed over coronavirus pandemic
(CNN)UEFA has decided to postpone this year’s European Championship until 2021 because of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.The football tournament had been due to kick off in Rome, Italy, on June…
China’s first coronavirus vaccine approved for clinical trials
By Jackie Salonypost.com China has greenlit the start of clinical trials on a coronavirus vaccine — developed by researchers led by a biowarfare expert from ground zero of the pandemic.…
Armenian Church cancels some services in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, has announced that a number of religious serviced will be cancelled in a bid to curb to the spread…
NAYIRI NAHABEDIAN REELECTED TO GLENDALE UNIFIED BOARD OF EDUCATION
GLENDALE — Nayiri Nahabedian has been reelected to the Glendale Unified School District’s Board of Education. This will be her fourth term on the Board She is the daughter of…
NEW RECIPIENTS OF VARTAN GREGORIAN SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCED
Asya Darbinyan with a research project Armenian Refugees of the War and Genocide and Russian Imperial Humanitarianism and a team of scholars led by Knar Khachatryan with their project Urbanization…
Erdogan Should be Tried by International Criminal Court for Supporting Terrorism
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Last week, I reported that President Erdogan’s office sent a letter to the heads of religious minorities in Turkey demanding that they sign…
Many People In Sicily And Malta Bear The Surname “Armenia”
The “mysterious” residents of Malta and Sicily who bear the surname “Armenia” embody the Armenian presence on the islands of the Mediterranean Sea, Malta, and Sicily. The roots of Armenian…
TWO SMALL, BUT IMPORTANT STEPS
BY STEPAN PILIGIAN | The Armenian Weekly The leadership crisis in our church has been one of several themes in this column. Our community cannot thrive without the largest and…
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