Where: Vorotnavank Monastery, Syunik Province, Armenia When: June 2017 Distance from Fargo: 6,043 miles Comments: "We went to Armenia to visit my son living in a remote village serving in the Peace ...

DADIVANK, Azerbaijan, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Soldiers unloaded sandbags and monks donned khaki vests over their cassocks on Sunday after Russian peacekeepers arrived to guard the 12th century Armenian ...

Last September, the Amaras Monastery, one of Christianity's oldest religious complexes and a sacred site of the Armenian Apostolic Church, was seized by Azerbaijan as it invaded the self-governing ...

In late 2020, long-simmering tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan over a disputed territory escalated into war. Over six weeks, missiles, drone attacks, and heavy artillery fire erupted throughout ...

From cliff-carved chapels to highland fortresses, these UNESCO-recognized sites bring travelers face to face with 17 centuries of ritual and craftsmanship. The Tatev Monastery is just one of five ...

The Armenian Varakavank monastery complex in Bakracli village of Turkey’s Van Province is on the brink of destruction, Ermenihaber reports. Locals call the monastery “Seven Churches.” The monastery ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A hundred years after taking in scores of children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide, a 19th-century orphanage in Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter has reopened its doors ...

Armenian officials tend to be quick to voice concern over the destruction or deterioration of Armenian churches and monasteries in neighboring Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. But conservationists ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

In an attack that occurred Tuesday, illegal Israeli colonizers stormed the Armenian Quarter in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, attacking the Armenian Monastery and desecrating Christian holy ...

(This Nov. 15 story changes spelling of presidential aide Hajiyev in 7th paragraph) DADIVANK, Azerbaijan (Reuters) – Soldiers unloaded sandbags and monks donned khaki vests over their cassocks on ...