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Armenia has not prospered in the recent decades. In December 1988, a massive earthquake killed 55,000 and left hundreds of thousands homeless. It damaged the country’s nuclear reactors and they had to be shut down, substantially reducing the national energy supply. Much of Armenia was denuded of trees as they were cut down for firewood during the extremely cold winter of 1992-1993. Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan erupted in 1992 over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, entirely encompassed by Azerbaijan. Though a cease fire went into effect in 1994, the issue has not been resolved. | Armenia has not prospered in the recent decades. In December 1988, a massive earthquake killed 55,000 and left hundreds of thousands homeless. It damaged the country’s nuclear reactors and they had to be shut down, substantially reducing the national energy supply. Much of Armenia was denuded of trees as they were cut down for firewood during the extremely cold winter of 1992-1993. Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan erupted in 1992 over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, entirely encompassed by Azerbaijan. Though a cease fire went into effect in 1994, the issue has not been resolved. | ||
Ninety percent of the Armenians in the world are Armenian Apostolic and most of the other ten percent belong to the Armenian Catholic and Armenian Evangelical churches. | Ninety percent of the Armenians in the world are Armenian Apostolic Christians and most of the other ten percent belong to the Armenian Catholic and Armenian Evangelical churches. | ||
The Armenian Apostolic Church (also known as Armenian Gregorian or Armenian Orthodox) is numbered among the “Oriental Orthodox” communities along with Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Orthodox churches because it refused to accept the rulings of the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Most Orthodox Armenians are subject to the Catholicos who resides in Echmiadzin, a monastery twenty miles west of Yerevan. The monastery has been the ecclesiastical metropolis of the Armenian nation since the 4th century. A smaller group of Orthodox Armenians are subject to the Cilician Catholicos resident in Antelias, Lebanon. The schism between the two occurred in 1441 but they have worked harmoniously for five centuries. | The Armenian Apostolic Church (also known as Armenian Gregorian or Armenian Orthodox) is numbered among the “Oriental Orthodox” communities along with Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Orthodox churches because it refused to accept the rulings of the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Most Orthodox Armenians are subject to the Catholicos who resides in Echmiadzin, a monastery twenty miles west of Yerevan. The monastery has been the ecclesiastical metropolis of the Armenian nation since the 4th century. A smaller group of Orthodox Armenians are subject to the Cilician Catholicos resident in Antelias, Lebanon. The schism between the two occurred in 1441 but they have worked harmoniously for five centuries. | ||