Geneva joins to Commemoration of Armenian Genocide. Every year Armenian community gathers at the liturgy at St. Hakob Armenian Church to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide. Photo by Lucy Mighanouche Baghramian
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Geneva joins to Commemoration of Armenian Genocide. Every year Armenian community gathers at the liturgy at St. Hakob Armenian Church to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide. Photo by Lucy Mighanouche Baghramian
wburToday, special commemorations around the world will take place to remember the centennial of Armenian Genocide in 1915. A strong community of Armenians in Watertown will gather to reflect on the killings and the value of their ethnicity and traditions.
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BostonGlobe.comPope Francis gave a spirited speech during a Mass earlier this month to commemorate the scars on Armenia’s national memory. On April 15, the European Parliament joined Vatican City and 22 other nations in recognizing the Armenian genocide and called upon Turkey to do the same. The United States should be next.
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Genocide survivor Hripsime Haji Sargsyan with her family. She had 2 children, 6 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great grandchildren. View gallery here: 100lives.com
For several weeks now I’ve been trying to put into words what the centennial of the Armenian Genocide means to me personally, and how I am either directly or indirectly affected by that holocaust. Would I have existed had the Genocide not taken place? Is it possible that my grandparents would have met regardless and given birth to my own parents, who in turn would have met either in Western Armenia or in the United States?
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Here's to hoping genocide will only be a past-tense noun by the next centennial. #ArmenianGenocideCentennial
The ConversationOn the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we asked scholars to reflect on the significance of Armenian insistence on remembering and Turkey's insistence that the genocide never happened.
Armenian WeeklyThe Armenian National Committee (ANC) of New Jersey will host a program dedicated to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide on April 25, at the St. Vartanantz Armenian Apostolic Church. Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy and Kristi Rendahl will deliver keynote addresses, followed by a film presentation by Talin Avakian. MacCurdy, currently special assistant to the president…
USA TODAYArmenians from around the globe are in Istanbul to commemorate the start of what's been called the first genocide of modern times, when up to 1.5 million Armenians died.
The Huffington PostISTANBUL -- On April 24, 1915, Ottoman Turkish authorities hauled off Daniel Varoujan, a leading Armenian poet of the time, along with over 200 other intellectuals in the capital Constantinople. To the crumbling Ottoman Empire, the poets, painters, w...
The Huffington PostYetvart Tomasyan's father, Bedros (second from right), poses with his family for a photograph in the early 1900s in the Ottoman Empire, now modern-day Turkey. The family photo is missing a small boy, Bedros' brother, who descendants say died in a dea...
Armenian WeeklyMonths of Educational and Cultural Activities Planned BOCA RATON, Fla.—In February 2014, Armenian Genocide Commemoration, Inc. was formed to oversee Centennial activities in South Florida, with involvement from St. David Armenian Church in Boca Raton, St. Mary Armenian Church in Hollywood, and nine other local Armenian organizations. The Armenian community in South Florida has been…
The Russian State Duma on Friday adopted a statement on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, RIA Novosti reports. “The State Duma extends its deep condolences to fraternal Armenia in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide as well as to other nations that suffered during the tragic events in the course of World War I. It considers that the complicated matters of history and the international disputes need to be settled by peaceful means, including
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Armenian Genocide Commemoration Ceremony at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex.