Armenian college in Damascus still functioningOctober 30, 2013 - 11:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian college in Damascus is still functioning. It’s attended by 182 students, including 25 Arabs, who live nearby, Beirut-based Aztag daily reports. According to member of Arab Writers Union Nora Harissian, the Armenian language and theology in the college are taught 5 and 2 times per week respectively. Besides, there are lessons in Arabic, English and French. “Despite the ongoing conflict, the college is open and the community does its utmost to secure uninterrupted education process,” Harissian said. The college was founded in 1929 by the Armenians who fled the genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Before the war, there were 80,000 Armenians living in Syria, most of them in Aleppo. When hostilities broke out 10,000 people fled to Armenia while 5,000 settled in neighboring Lebanon. The war took lives of 115,000 people, according to the UN. Photo: aztagdaily.com Related links: Top stories Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. Partner news | EU calls on Azerbaijan to release all political prisoners The European Union calls on Azerbaijan to release all those imprisoned for exercising their fundamental rights. Police try to impede Armenian Church head’s access to war memorial Police tried to stop the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, from visiting a war memorial. “He will leave”: Protest leader no longer demands meeting with Pashinyan Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan no longer demands a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Lemkin Institute petition seeks release of Armenians in Azerbaijan The Lemkin Institute is deeply concerned about the continued illegal detention of political prisoners from Karabakh in Azerbaijan. |