Third Annual Conference to Spotlight Efforts to Preserve Christianity in the Middle East; Advocate Passage of Armenian Genocide Truth + Justice Resolution (H.Res.154)
WASHINGTON—The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) will serve as a major sponsor of the In Defense of Christians (IDC) National Advocacy Convention, to be held Sept. 7-9, in Washington, DC. Hundreds of prominent Christians and diverse faith leaders will join human rights advocates from across the United States to urge elected officials to take concrete action to preserve Christianity in the Middle East.
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What is IDC doing to preserve Historical Christian Armenian village of Havresc in N. Iraq near the Turkish border? We should be partnering with film maker David Ritter he is touring his film an trying to raise funds for this village. Watch the trailer “Havresc: Stand on Courage” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLSD0QfMV8E
Dear Readers,
I commend the IDC but it will be an uphill battle. My friend, an Assyrian, now deceased, said that the Assyrian Christians will not go back to NINEVEH province in Iraq because of Muslim discrimination. The Middle East without Christians would be a terrible thing. As the Lebanese writer Hanin Ghaddar noted: The Lebanese historian Kemal Salibi once observed that “it is Christian Arabs who keep the Arab world “Arab” rather than Muslim and “have played a vital role in defining a secular Arab cultural identity.” Hanin Ghaddar said, “the region seems to be going back to tribalism, as if a century of intellectual awakening and secular ideas are being erased and our identities are evaporating.”
Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut