Henrikh Mkhitaryan wishes healing to Armenians on Christmas dayJanuary 6, 2021 - 17:59 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia national team captain, Roma midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has congratulated his followers on Christmas, expressing confidence that the national will be able to overcome all the challenges it is facing today. “Today Armenians celebrate their Holy Christmas, which also coincides with the Epiphany. This year however we will mark the Feast of Holy Nativity with heavy hearts,” Mkhitaryan said in a Facebook post on January 6. “Armenia and Artsakh are challenged to recover both from physical and moral wounds of the war. My compatriots were hit hard. Severe trauma must be treated urgently. And we have to heal our spiritual wounds.” Armenia, he said, is not only a plot of land, it is also women, men and children with an extraordinary capacity of resilience and force to stand up. “We have to win over this darkness. With the support of everyone, as did my AS Roma from the very first days of the war, I am firmly convinced we will recover,” the playmaker said. “We will continue to edify churches, compose operas, paint masterpieces, discover vaccines, score goals…create, innovate, perform and share with the world." Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |