Keynote speaker and ARF Bureau member Aram Kaloustian delivered the following remarks at the Armenian Genocide Commemoration held at the Montebello Martyrs Monument on April 23, 2019. We are gathered here today to commemorate the […]
Reverend clergy, honored guests, Knights & Daughters of Vartan, and friends. We must declare today the unabashed truth. Not only for the sake of truth—for that is already written upon each of our hearts—known virtually […]
For me, probably the worst part of working in news is the industry’s magnetic pull to crisis. (There’s even a saying: “If it bleeds, it leads.”) Of course, there is good reason to fret, especially […]
A little over a century ago, the people of Armenia fell victim to the first genocide in the twentieth century at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. An estimated 1.5 million people were systematically extinguished […]
If there’s anything I’ve learned running a Diasporan newspaper, it’s that there seem to be—at any given point—a million reasons for Armenians in the Diaspora to disagree with one another. We are by no means […]
I have never felt more incomplete walking out of church than I did on Easter Sunday. Something was stirring, and I felt compelled to go back. So on Monday morning, I ran into the groundskeeper, […]
Every year in April, Armenians around the world commemorate the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which is still denied by Turkey and remains unrecognized by the US government. There are marches in Los Angeles and […]
Over the past several months, the pace of the peace process over the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict has quickly accelerated, culminating in the recent summit in Vienna between Armenian and Azerbaijani leadership, which has emerged […]
Easter is the celebration of Christ’s resurrection. It is an affirmation about life after death—an assurance of eternal life with God. It is also a statement about a quality of life here on earth—an assurance […]
After Australia’s northern border was attacked during World War II, the Australian government, under Prime Minister John Curtin, recognized that the country was in urgent need of a population boost. National security was the motivating […]
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