Armenian officials to be invited on opening ceremony of St Cross

Armenian officials to be invited on opening ceremony of St Cross
Church in Akdamar

02.03.2007 12:12

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – Opening of the St Cross Church in Akdamar will be a
gesture to Armenians and the whole world, Yusuf Halacoglu, head of the
Turkish Historical Society stated. `We don’t have anything to hide. I
shall be present on the ceremony,’ he said.

Armenian officials, leaders and culture ministers from European
countries will be invited to the opening of the church, The New
Anatolian reports. The opening ceremony will be held not April 11, as
was scheduled before, but April 15.

The opening of the church located on Akdamar Island was delayed until
April 24 by the Culture Ministry, but under the pressure of
Turkish-Armenian community and Constantinople Patriarch Mesrob II
Mutafyan the ceremony was changed to an earlier date.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS