Friday, April 24, 2020

Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook


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Today in the Mission Yearbook: April 24, 2020

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY - The men were taken first, and then the women and children were brutalized. Witnesses saw the Euphrates run with blood, and women plunged into the river to escape the terrors of the desert march.

Throughout the Ottoman territories of 1915, Armenian villages were emptied out, in a systematic campaign to demean and destroy innocent victims. Although authorities in modern-day Turkey deny this genocide, historians have gathered indisputable evidence of at least a million Armenians killed and a million more dispersed from their ancient homeland, the world’s first Christian nation ...

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