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...Council further passes on plans to open theological schools, nonexistent in Russia since 1917. The first one, Moscow's Theological Institute in the 400-year-old Novodyevichi monastery, was reopened three weeks ago. More recently the Council has granted Gregorian Armenians permission to open a seminary near Erivan, is now considering a request from Moslems in the Uzbek Republic who want to open a school for mullahs. Poliansky concedes that religious freedom would be an empty slogan if churches could not recruit clergy, declares there is "no objection" to any faith having religious schools for clergy...
...remote parts of the Soviet Union local peoples and tribes are not greatly molested by the Union of the Militant Godless, lest they rebel. Thus letters reaching Moscow last week from Erivan, capital of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia, announced that on Nov. 13 the Congress of the Armenian Gregorian Church met at Echmiadzin, with British, French and U. S. delegates present and elected a new Gregorian supreme head, the former Archbishop Horan Murad-pekian of Erivan who at once assumed the title of His Holiness the Catholicos...
...Russia, came reports: 1) Of an unknown seal of King Artaxerxes (I or III) of Persia, rummaged out of a museum storeroom, together with numerous coins of the Golden Horde (Tartars) who set up a dynasty in Russia in the 13th Century; 2) on the slopes of Mount Ararat (Erivan, Armenia, the head of a life-size statue of an early Armenian King, wearing what seemed to be Christian earrings; 3) of Neanderthal skeletons (fourth human era), dug also in Erivan...