Radnor Township was first settled in 1663 by a group of 40 Quakers from Radnorshire, Wales. Today, the bucolic town with lush greenery and winding roads happens to be home to an Armenian day school—Armenian […]
While most of those fleeing Syria are in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, several thousand have also gone to Armenia. In fact, compared to stories about asylum seekers in Europe or the Middle East, Armenia has […]
The lead-up to this year’s Europa League final, which is the Union of European Football Association’s (UEFA) penultimate continental club competition, has been stained because European football’s governing body has chosen the capital of the […]
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 […]
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