Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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The Armenian Church should immediately defrock all rebellious clergymen

Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, Primate of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of the United States, issued a highly controversial…

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Chronology of Turkey’s long war against its minorities (1941-2007)

Editor’s note: The following is the last in a three-part series. Read parts one and two here. The Republic of…

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Faith in crisis: Why we must demand more from our Armenian Christian institutions

As someone who has written for decades about Armenian identity, justice and survival, I’ve rarely encountered a topic as sobering…

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Part 2: Turkey’s persecution of minorities from 1930-1941

This is the second article in a three-part series (to read part one, click here) about Turkey’s persecution and systematic…

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Persecution of minorities in Turkey did not end in 1915

Editor’s note: The following is the first in a three-part series. Turkey’s persecution and systematic violation of human rights of…

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Pashinyan orders invasion of Holy Etchmiadzin’s sacred grounds

Last week, for the second time in recent months, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan dispatched hundreds of police officers and undercover…

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Pashinyan may soon declare himself the new Catholicos of All Armenians

With each passing day, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is causing further damage to the Armenian Apostolic Church and the reputation…

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Can Pashinyan do for Armenia a fraction of what Erdogan has done for Turkey?

I just read an in-depth investigation published by the ‘Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’ (OCCRP) titled, “Behind Trump’s Turkish…

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Pashinyan and rebellious clergy versus the Catholicos

Several critical developments took place last week that further complicated the confrontation between the Armenian Church and the government. Since…

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Armenia pays U.S. public relations firm to attack the Armenian Apostolic Church

Last week, I came across a disturbing eight-page document described as a “White Paper” titled “Clarifying Church-State Relations in Armenia:…

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