THE BIGGEST CONCERN OF THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN ITALY TO REMAIN ARMENIAN
Two thousand Armenians live in Italy. Three hundred of them live in Milan. They are peaceful and united round the same idea - to remain Armenian. According to Kekel Khachatrian, who lives in Milan, their community has no problems with the parties, as it is very small. The only concern is to remain Armenian, and the rest is not important. Several Armenian organizations act in Milan: 'Armenian Union of Italy', 'Armenian Apostolic Church', 'Homenetmen', 'Armenian House', etc. There is no Armenian school in Milan, because children and youth are few here. Only private courses of Armenian are conducted on Saturdays in the Armenian House, sponsored by Armenian Apostolic Church. But the private courses cannot replace the school.
Learning Armenian is very important for the Armenians of Italy. The interest in learning Armenian is bigger among the third generation of Armenians here. During the last 15 years the interest in Armenia and everything connected with Armenians has become bigger among the Armenians of Italy. The children of mixed marriages also want to learn Armenian. The percentage of mixed marriages is very big here: only one from ten is not mixed. In spite of the above-mentioned the community is very unanimous. Though only about half of the Armenians, living in Milan, are active, all of them are ready to unite and act when it concerns to the big problems, i.e. in 1965 the Armenians of Milan could organize a commemoration ceremony devoted to the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the General Church of Milan.
In 2005 they organized an Apostolic Service in the Church of St. Ambrogio. It became a tradition to have ceremonies here on April 24, every year. In this year's ceremony took part the representatives of all sister-churches and they all blamed Turkey for the committed Genocide. If the same happened in Lebanon, it would not be so interesting, but we are a very small community and it is a big victory for us, declared Kekel Khachatrian. Another victory of the Armenians of Milan is the building of the Apostolic Church here. The Catholic Church didn't allow building an Apostolic Church side-by-side with St. Ambrogio Church. At last in 1958 the Armenian Apostolic Church was built in a new place.
- By Nana Petrosian
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- 1869 Death of the Armenologist Victor Langlois. He translated Armenian historical sources into French under the sponsorship of Noobar Pasha.
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