Mormons Blog on Armenia
Lola Koundakjian of the Armenian Poetry Project and Life in Travel forwarded me a link to a new blog on Armenia this morning. Not so unexpected perhaps, but always interesting to take a look, this time the blog is from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — otherwise more commonly known as the Mormons.
The main page, however, indicates that it is not an official blog. Still, it’s an interesting precedent for organized religion with a focus on Armenia.
I want this site to be a resource for newly called missionaries and their families. When I was called during the summer of ‘99, there was no one to give us any information about this new mission. I wanted to build a website that could be informative and inspiring to those missionaries who will go and continue the work my companions and I started.
This site is in no way affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and does not speak for it. Also, it is not an official mission website. It is just information about the mission, the country, the people and a reflection of our experiences there as missionaries.
However, either the internet in Armenia is getting lousier and and lousier by the day, or the blog’s server is attrociously slow so I’m not finding it easy to access all the pages yet. Nevertheless, it looks as though there are sections for learning Eastern Armenian via podcasts as well as your usual chronological account type of blog.
There’s already one entry on a new intake of eight missionaries to Armenia. Anyway, I wonder if this will now prompt priests in the Armenian Apostolic Church to set up a blog or two in response? There was the excellent http://dervaz.blogspot.com/, but that hasn’t been updated since April and only focused on Genocide.
I guess Mormons like to get baptized in their underpants, or are those Haz-Mat suits?
Kamo’s baptism:
http://tinyurl.com/ylaznv
Comment by Armen — November 26, 2006 @ 1:10 am
here is something that comes close to blogging, although it is not, done by an armenian priest.
http://mypriest.araratian-tem.am/index.php?id=1
Comment by artyom — November 26, 2006 @ 8:00 pm
It would have been better to see that schools and libraries are being built. Any organized religion seems to be scary.
Comment by Nanul — November 27, 2006 @ 7:52 am
FYI: The website is no longer active. No new podcasts have been released in 2007.
Lola
Comment by Lola Koundakjian — July 20, 2007 @ 6:38 pm