Novena for deliverance of the Armenian people

Aug 23 2023

One year after the beginning of the conflict in between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Bishop Mikael Antoine Mouradian of the Armenian Catholic Eparchy in the USA is starting a novena for the deliverance of the Armenian people.

While diplomacy between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains at an impasse, all Catholics are invited to unite their prayers for nine days in order Pray for the Armenian Christians who are being persecuted and that a solution may be found to help them.

Azerbaijan is currently blocking 120 000 Armenian Christians from receiving any help and is pushing them from their homes in Artsakh.

An initiative of Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg, USA and Canada, this international novena begins on August 25, 2023. It invites people to pray to the Armenian saints and to fast for the end of persecution and a just peace.

The novena invokes intercession of the Virgin Mary and St Gregory of Narek to help the Armenian people and help find a resolution to this nightmare for them.

We invite people to repeat this novena as many times as they can and to fast and to pray for their Armenian Brothers and Sisters in Christ. As the situation in Armenia is very difficult, and people there are afraid if a repetition of the genocide of 1915-1917, all prayer is more than welcome.

As the Church prayed for Peter when he was in prison, pray for the Armenians imprisoned and persecuted in their homeland.

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS