Photos by Raffi Youredjian LONDON, UK—On Sat., April 20, approximately 1,500 people, led by the Homenetmen Scouts, members of the Armenian Community and Church Council (ACCC) and the Campaign for Recognition of the Armenian Genocide (CRAG), marched through the streets of London, moving from Oxford …
WASHINGTON—His Eminence Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan, Prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Eastern United States, offered the opening prayer of the U.S. House of Representatives on Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day, April 24, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). Archbishop Choloyan with Senator …
WASHINGTON—The Chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee – the two powerful Congressional panels with oversight over U.S. foreign policy – joined with their colleagues on the evening of April 24th on Capitol Hill in rallying bipartisan support for …
It’s April 24, 2013. In Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul. People have gathered in front of the Turkish-Islamic Arts Museum which, in 1915, served as the Central Prison that held Armenian intellectuals kept before they were sent to their deaths. But something very unusual is happening. …
WASHINGTON—Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairmen Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) were joined by more than 20 of their colleagues in calling on leading House foreign aid appropriators to increase aid to Armenia, expand assistance for Nagorno-Karabagh, target allocations for Javakhk, and support refugee resettlement …
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian issued the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s April 24 “Armenian Remembrance Day” message, which again stopped short of properly characterizing the crime as “genocide.” “Sadly, President Obama chose today not to lead, but rather …
Below is the full text of the joint statement issued on April 24, 2013 by Catholicos Karekin II and Catholicos Aram I, urging Turkey to return confiscated Armenian churches and church assets. Sourp Khatch Church in Akhtamar, Van (Photo by Khatchig Mouradian) In 2015, Armenians …
Below is the full text of the statement issued by President Barack Obama on Armenian Remembrance Day, April 24, 2013. To read the ANCA’s response click here. Today we commemorate the Meds Yeghern and honor those who perished in one of the worst atrocities of the 20th …
This report was filed by the Armenian Weekly’s Diyarbakir correspondent, Gulisor Akkum. DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—A large crowd gathered at the Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality Theater on April 23 to commemorate the Armenian Genocide. A scene from the commemoration The event, commemorating the 98th anniversary of the destruction of …
WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—There was a heavy police and military presence in Watertown on Fri., April 19, as police searched for 19-year-old Dzokhar Tsarnaev. The suspect, a resident of Cambridge, had gone on a violent rampage the night of April 18, together with his 26-year-old brother …
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