December 2011
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Broom Fight, Starring Armenian and Greek Monks
Merry Christmas, here’s your gift:
In the spirit of holiday giving, Armenian and Greek Orthodox Monks took it upon themselves to exchange gifts, except they weren’t the kind of presents you would normally expect. Around 100 priests hurled brooms at each other in Bethlehem’s Church of Nativity as they were cleaning the church in preparation for Orthodox Christmas, which both cultural ...
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Armenia’s Suicide Spot: The Kievyan Bridge →
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23 Years Later, Gyumri Struggles to Move On →
The train from Yerevan to Gyumri took three hours. It was sturdy, but Soviet. Sturdy but Soviet. I sat on its wooden pews, looked at its safety posters with Cyrillic letters I could recognize, but…
