CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS SENDS CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO ARMENIAN
PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH HOLIDAY OF REPUBLIC
ECHMIADZIN, MAY 29, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Catholicos of All
Armenians Karekin II sent a congratulatory message to the whole
Armenian people on the occasion of the Day of Republic. The
Patriarchal message provided to Noyan Tapan from the Press Services of
the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin, in particular, read: “With fatherly
love we bless each of you in Armenia, Artsakh and Spyurk and
congratulate you on the occasion of the Holiday of Republic. As a
result of the heroic fights of 1918 May, the First Republic of Armenia
was proclaimed as the fulfilment of the age-old hopes of our people
for freedom and independence. The Armenian people who confirmed its
independent statehood with a heroic struggle, inflexible belief in its
independent statehood, is striving for improving its homeland with its
creative work.”