Parishioners return to Forty Martyrs Armenian Cathedral in Aleppo![]() April 13, 2019 - 13:41 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Parishioners in Syria's Aleppo are actively returning to the restored Forty Martyrs Armenian Cathedral, which was destroyed by militants of the Islamic State militant group in 2015, RIA Novosti reports. The Forty Martyrs Armenian Cathedral was re-consecrated on March 30, four years after militants ransacked the building "We are very pleased to be able to return and come here again, we hadn’t been here for a long time because of the war, one of the parishioners said. "The church is also a place where people meet. All our brothers, engineers, doctors, workers can now come here. This is great happiness." The Armenian Diaspora in Aleppo can be traced back some 2,000 years and tens of thousands remained in the city up until the outbreak of the civil war in 2011. ![]() ![]() Azerbaijani authorities report that they have already resettled 3,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Stepanakert. On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. ![]() ![]() Partner news | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |