New Armenian programming joins some 80 languages offered by Adventist World Radio 2012, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States Shelley Nolan Freesland/ANN staff Adventist media officials say two new Adventist World Radio FM stations in Armenia will connect with residents of the world’s oldest official Christian country. AWR recently began broadcasting programs in Armenian, the latest in a line-up of more than 80 languages offered by the radio arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. A radio station in the capital city of Yerevan and another in Vanadzor will carry programming on spirituality, health and family. An Adventist World Radio media team is heading up new Armenian language programming in the country. The Mkhitaryan family, at right, has previous broadcast experience from their involvement with earlier radio work in Vanadzor. [photo courtesy AWR] “Many young people are moving to the capital for jobs and education, and the nation is facing hard economic times, especially in the villages and small towns,” says Vigen Khachatryan, Media Center director for the church’s Trans-Caucasus Union Mission, based in Tbilisi, Georgia

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