December 7, 2018, marks 30 years since the 1988 earthquake struck Armenia. The excerpt here, from The Torch Was Passed (1998), recounts how the Armenian-American community came together in those early days to focus on alleviating the suffering in their homeland.
December 7, 2018, marks 30 years since the 1988 earthquake struck Armenia. The excerpt here, from The Torch Was Passed (1998), recounts how the news broke to the Armenian-American community, and how the world replied in the immediate aftermath.
It is truly humbling to realize that three decades have elapsed since the earthquake struck Armenia on December 7, 1988.
With the deepest sorrow, the Eastern Diocese mourns the loss of the Reverend Fr. Diran Avak Kahana Papazian, who passed away on November 21, 2018.
“Thousands of Christians and people of other religions in the Middle East face persecution daily,” said four American religious leaders in a letter to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, on November 16, 2018.
