Beloved FAR friend, master pianist, philanthropist and humanitarian Sahan Arzruni spent most of June conducting a tour with a mission as...

The Armenian American Health Professionals Organization’s (AAHPO) recent medical mission to the Berd Region has led to a new...

When Ruzanna Tumanyan, 62, was a student she thought constantly about the sky. She wanted to be an aviator, specifically a flight tester,...

The FAR drive was led by our ACYOA Seniors of The Armenian Church of Holy Translators (ACHT), located in Framingham, MA. In early...

ACYOA and FAR are thinking out of the box. Over the past few weeks the organizations have joined forces, producing a unique initiative...

The senior ACYOA of St. Gregory the Enlightener in White Plains, NY, has participated in the Hand in Hand art supply drive since November...

Although she was born in New York, Katrina Shakarian, 24, has visited Armenia and Nagorno-Karabagh three times. Her mother is from...

James Balakian, son of the famous American writer Peter Balakian, visited the land of his ancestral roots for the first time during the...

When Archbishop Tiran Nersoyan, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern) established the American Church Youth...

Our week in Gyumri is behind us. We've since visited the Haghpat and Sanahin monasteries in Lori Marz. We continued onto the town of...

Vernissage is an open air market near Yerevan's Republic Square. It's open for business on Saturday and Sunday. ASP-ers spent their last...

Nothing on this three-week trip has topped the excitement of climbing the mountains around Lake Sevan. Together our group scaled the...

On July 18, we visited Khor Virab, the pit where St. Gregory resided for 13 years before healing King Drtad through prayer. Khor Virab...

The earthquake that struck Armenia in 1988 left 25,000 people dead, and thousands homeless. Today, 22 years after the disaster, many...

ASP-ers divided their time in Gyumri between assisting with renovations at the Ounjian school and FAR's soup kitchen. Everyday four...

Like every day in Gyumri, today was incredibly busy. Apart from our work at both the Ounjian School and the soup kitchen, we partook in...

Do as the locals do. That has been my credo as I have toured and worked in Armenia over the past week and a half. When the group visited...

Gyumri is known throughout Armenia as a city of artists. Its old city, for example, boasts a unique style of architecture that you'll see...

Today we began the service portion of our trip. We've divided ourselves into four groups that will be rotating between FAR's soup kitchen...

Students graduating from Yerevan State Medical University convened in the university’s main conference hall last week to learn about how...