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  • 19 Apr 2011
    Deir Zor: Remembering the lost million

    Deir Zor, the felicitous little village in Syria which bore witness, a century ago, to the death march of hundreds and thousands of helpless victims of an organised genocide against Armenians, is in the news again. Arthur Hagopian reports from Jerusalem.

  • 18 Apr 2011
    Twentieth century mass killings remembered in April

    Two of the worst atrocities of the 20th century started in the month of April, reports Mike O'Sullivan.The killing of 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Empire Turkey in 1915 and 1916, and the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994.

  • 29 Nov 2010
    An exercise in difficult truth-telling

    It was an honour for new Ekklesia Associate Director Jordan Tchilingirian - who is from an Armenian background - and for me to attend the 2010 Constantinople Lecture last week.

  • 29 Nov 2010
    The Armenian Genocide: A way forward?
  • 16 Nov 2010
    The Constantinople Lecture 2010

    Ekklesia's good friend Harry Hagopian is giving the Annual Constantinople Lecture on Thursday 25 November 2010. Its topic is “The Armenian Genocide: A Way Forward?”

  • 31 Aug 2010
    The reality of Armenia today

    How to sum up our Armenian realities today? What strikes me most is that Armenians have managed to survive manifold hardships throughout history without giving up on our faith, language and history.

  • 30 Aug 2010
    Armenia: to forgive is divine

    Previously, I referred to the horrific genocidal experiences that amputated Armenians from Ottoman Turkish society during WWI and cost the lives of scores of men, women and children - including member

  • 27 Aug 2010
    Armenia's memory of annihilation

    If two of the main cornerstones of the Armenian people are their faith and language, a third is the Armenian genocide that took place under cover of WWI.

  • 26 Aug 2010
    Armenia and the coming of Christianity

    Having yesterday introduced Armenians as a distinct global people - including roughly 14,000 living in the UK - mostly in London and Manchester, I would like to consider Armenia and Christianity.

  • 25 Aug 2010
    Being Armenian yesterday and today

    I am Armenian. "An Armenian, what is that?" many people would ask...