240 STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS IN SYUNIK BAPTIZED AT ONE TIME

 
KAPAN, DECEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS: Over 240 students and professors of the branches of the Yerevan Engineering University in Kapan, the administrative center of the Syunik province and the Russian-Armenian Humanitarian University in Goris, the second largest town of the province, were baptized in a mass ceremony on December 1-2 in two churches in Kapan and Goris.
The mass baptism was part of a series of events steered by the provincial governor’s office and called ‘A Pilgrimage to the Light.’ The godfathers were local governor Surik Khachatrian, chief manager of Zangezour metallurgical plant Maxim Hakobian and Kapan mayor Armen Karapetian.
An official of the governor’s office in charge of culture issues, said to Armenpress the ultimate goal of such events is to advertise the teaching of Armenian Apostolic Church among young people a