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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