“If they are such good citizens, and have not betrayed the state in any way, why don’t they just become Muslims?”

The dramatic, often damaging environmental changes sweeping planet Earth are brought into sharp focus in a new atlas launched by the United Nations Environment Programme.

Environment News Service: The Armenian government has announced plans to build a new highway that bisects one of only three pristine forest reserves in the country, alarming Armenia Tree Project.

Patriarch Mesrob II met with Mehmet Niyazi Tanilir, the Governor of Van, at 16:30 on Saturday, 4 June 2005, at the Patriarch's residence on Kinali Island.

Los Angeles Times article by Claudia Zequeira, Times Staff Writer (June 3, 2005)

The United Nations agricultural agency said today that farming in and around urban areas needs to play a bigger role in feeding city populations.

The Hudson Turkish-American Cultural Association visited the Armenian Patriarchate as part of a faith tour organized around Turkey's religious sites.

From 2-4 June an international conference on Christology, "Christ He Who Is" was held at Sigtuna, near Stockholm.

His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, arrived in Los Angeles on June 1, 2005.

The new board members of the Armenian Hospital in Yedikule, Istanbul, paid a visit to His Beatitude Mesrob II of Istanbul and All Turkey.

His Beatitude Mesrob II of Istanbul and All Turkey, presided over the Divine Liturgy in the Armenian Church of Saint Gregory the Illuminator on Kinali Island on Sunday morning, 22 May 2005.

City-wide elections were held on Sunday, 22 May 2005, by the İstanbul Armenian Community in order to elect the new administrators of the four community foundations.

Turkish Ministry plans to restore the Church of the Holy Cross on the Island of Aghtamar.

His Beatitude Patriarch Mesrob of Istanbul and All Turkey received in audience a group of graduate students from Denver Seminary, Colorado, United States.

Patriarch Mesrob presided over the Pentecost festivities in the Armenian Church of the Holy Trinity in Balikpazari, Istanbul, on 15 May 2005, Sunday.

The Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul, established in 1461, celebrated the 544th anniversary of its ministry on Saturday 14 May 2005.

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Muslim-Catholic Dialogue gathered for a working session on marriage at Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, NY, May 4 and 5, 2005.

The Armenian Church delegation that will attend the inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI will arrive in Rome on 23 April 2005, Saturday afternoon.

His Beatitude Mesrob II, Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul and All Turkey, sent a congratulatory letter to the New Pope, His Holiness Benedict XVI.