French politician serving as a Senator for Bouches-du-Rhône Valérie Boyer has shared photos on social media from her trip to Dadivank monastery complex in Artsakh and the Abbot of the Monastery Father Hovhannes.
"On the Armenian Holy Christmas, let us recall the Artsakh Armenians, the victims of the new Genocide. My thoughts are with Father Hovhannes and Dadivank. I am thinking of this heritage site which is endangered, thinking of the murder of the Christians. Let us never forget them. Let us condemn and struggle," Boyer wrote in the accompanying message.
To note, Dadivank is an Armenian monastery in Artsakh. It was built between the 9th and 13th centuries. The monastery was founded by St. Dadi, a disciple of Thaddeus the Apostle who spread Christianity in Eastern Armenia during the first century AD.
The monastery was handed over to Azerbaijan as part of the November 9 trilateral statement, ending the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
En ce jour de Noël arménien je pense aux Arméniens de l'Artsakh victimes d'un nouveau génocide. Je pense au Père…