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Armenian national team captain and A.S. Roma midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan took to Facebook for a Christmas message on Wednesday, as Armenians celebrate the Holy Christmas, which also coincides with the Epiphany.

"This year however we will mark the Feast of Holy Nativity with heavy hearts. Armenia and Artsakh are challenged to recover both from physical and moral wounds of the war. My compatriots were hit hard. Severe traumas must be treated urgently. And we have to heal our spiritual wounds," wrote the player. 

In the words of Mkhitaryan, Armenia is not only a Land wounded, it is also women, men and children with an extraordinary capacity of resilience and force to lift up. People who have suffered a war deserve to be supported in order to start again.

"We have to win over this darkness. With the support of everyone, as did my AS Roma from the very first days of the war, I am firmly convinced we will recover. We will continue to edify churches, compose operas, paint masterpieces, discover vaccines, score goals…create, innovate, perform and share with the world," Mkhitaryan added.