240 STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS IN SYUNIK BAPTIZED AT ONE TIME

Armenpress
Dec 04 2006

KAPAN, DECEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS: Over 240 students and professors of
the branches of the Yerevan Engineering University in Kapan, the
administrative center of the Syunik province and the Russian-Armenian
Humanitarian University in Goris, the second largest town of the
province, were baptized in a mass ceremony on December 1-2 in two
churches in Kapan and Goris.

The mass baptism was part of a series of events steered by the
provincial governor’s office and called ‘A Pilgrimage to the
Light.’ The godfathers were local governor Surik Khachatrian, chief
manager of Zangezour metallurgical plant Maxim Hakobian and Kapan
mayor Armen Karapetian.

An official of the governor’s office in charge of culture issues,
said to Armenpress the ultimate goal of such events is to advertise
the teaching of Armenian Apostolic Church among young people and keep
them away from various religious sects.