YEREVAN—The Armenian government has condemned the murders of two Armenians, including a priest, on Monday in Syria’s Der-El-Zor province. Father Hovsep Bedoyan, the parish priest for the Armenian Catholic community in the northern Syrian city of Qamishli on the Turkish border, and his father Apraham Bedoyan have died. The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility almost immediately after the deadly attacks.
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He’s Armenian. He’s ours and we all mourn the loss of another brother!
Indeed,Very well written, deeply researched and finely documented.
Thank you Raffi.
Such a sad and unnecessary loss for Armenian Catholics and for the world at large. The Christians there are not trying to grab land or political power. They wish only to live in peace and practice their faith w/out fear of violence. It is also sad that again the US will will not step up to defend persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
He has such a sweet face, the face of someone who spent his whole life in service. who stayed to bring people peace when he could have fled to the western world, long ago. He didn’t deserve generations of brutal fate.
Freedom and peace to us and our Assyrians brothers. Assyrians + Armenians + Christian Arabs.. we deserve more than this cruel world ever had to offer
President Trump have become partner with Erdogan’s crimes, they both have the blood of the Kurds and the Armenian priest in their hands, they should be held accountable for crimes against humanity.
This sad news is the result of Turkish obsession with intolerance.
We pray for father’s soul ( both victims).