The Promise Behind “The Promise”

An Armenian in the US reflects on a new movie about the Armenian Genocide in 1915, a large scale atrocity still denied shamelessly by the Turkish government.

Public Orthodoxy

by Christopher H. Zakian

In 2015 the victims of the Armenian Genocide—long referred to as martyrs—were formally acknowledged as Christian saints, as the world marked the passage of a century since their suffering. Authorities of the Armenian Church proceeded with the canonization ceremony despite some indeterminacy about the precise number of saints being iden...