Armenian Genocide: 100th Anniversary

This month marks the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In April of 1915, over 1.5 Million Armenian Christians were executed by the Ottoman Turks for their Christian Faith. The genocide was believed to have begun on April 24th. For many years this atrocious act was denied by the Turkish Government. The memory of the horrors of this holocaust have haunted the Armenian people, some of whom are my friends.

I have friends who live in Jerusalem that are Armenian. Their parents escaped the genocide of 1915. Many of their family and friends were slain in the massacres. For them it dark hour of history, when evil unleashed great persecution during the First World War.

Holocaust Memorial Day was this month and we acknowledge the appalling acts of evil done by Nazis to the Jewish People and to Christians alike. The 1915 killings are a reminder that the Church can be persecuted and killed en masse. It should be a sober memorial for all Christians. A moment to remember that genocide of God's people has taken place before and the new mass killings in Iraq, Sudan, and other places in the world are not anything new. In fact, it is starling that the genocide taking place in Iraq that just started a day or two ago comes right at the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide! Coincidence? I think not. Just as I believe September 11th, 2001 was handpicked day by radicals as an act of revenge in memory of the Ottomans Turks being defeated by Christian Knights at Malta on September 11th, 1565; I think it is no mistake that the Iraq Genocide this April 24-prestent, 2015 comes at the 100th Anniversary of the April 24, 1915 Genocide! Both have fallen on the same dates!

May we take this moment to mourn and pray for the persecuted Church around the world. Our brothers and sisters in Christ are being killed and we should do what we can to help them. Please pray for those in Iraq and in other countries that are facing death simply because they are followers of Christ.

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