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Seven cutting-edge Armenian artists receive funding, mentorship, and promotion to push the frontiers of Armenian culture Creative Armenia and the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) are delighted to announce the seven selected artists of the...

My compatriots, both in Armenia and around the world, we are ending a year that has been dramatically different from any other in living memory. A century after the 1918 Spanish Flu, the world has lost nearly two million souls to the Covid-19...

As Armenian hospitals and care facilities work tirelessly to tend to those injured in the Artsakh War, the nation reached level four of coronavirus infection rates, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). With over 150,000...

Given its century-old history of advocating for the human rights and dignity of the Armenian people, the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) has long recognized the importance of supporting all victims of ethnic cleansing, genocide and other...

Our nation has faced extraordinary challenges over the past century. At each juncture, AGBU has worked to advance the national interest of the Armenian people and has historically been at the forefront on issues when the survival of our nation was...

In a highly unusual move to raise awareness and sound the alarm of a new humanitarian crisis unfolding at the gates of Europe, a delegation of 20 young Europeans of Armenian ancestry was dispatched to serve in a five-day mission to Armenia and...

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 15, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian held a telephone conversation with President of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Berge Setrakian, the Presidential Office told Armenpress. The officials discussed...

The end to active combat in the 2020 Nagorno Karabakh war is far from the end of the war on a key victim: the rich and irreplaceable cultural heritage of Artsakh, as the republic is known to Armenians. Only two years ago, Armenian art, history,...

"If I can’t be there personally to assist the children in Armenia, I trust AGBU to carry out my family’s wishes."

"She never lost her sharpness; a week before her passing, she requested a book about quantum physics. Keeping an open and curious mind was important to her."