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PRESS RELEASE
October 15, 2007
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HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN II BLESSES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL
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Washington, October 10, 2007-On an historic day for the
Armenian-American community, as the House Foreign Affairs Committee
debated the Armenian Genocide resolution, His Holiness Karekin II,
Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, blessed the house in
which the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial will be opened in
Washington. "May God bless your endeavor and bring the project you have
started to a happy conclusion," said His Holiness, shown with Archbishop
Khajak Barsamian of the Diocese of the Armenian Church, Hirair
Hovnanian, Chairman of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial Board
of Trustees, and Van Krikorian, Chairman of the AGMM Building and
Operations Committee.
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Washington, October 10, 2007- On a day that started with His Holiness
Karekin II delivering the opening prayer in the House of Representatives
and ended with the favorable vote in the House Foreign Affairs Committee
which referred the Armenian Genocide resolution to the floor, the
Armenian Catholicos also stopped at the landmark Washington building
which is being converted into the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial.
In remarks upon the conclusion of the blessing of the house service, His
Holiness said: "I bring my appreciation for your efforts to memorialize
the victims of the Armenian Genocide." Standing with the Catholicos are
Near East Foundation Board of Directors Chairman Shant Mardirossian,
Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial Building and Operations Committee
member Zaven Tachdjian, His Eminence Archbishop Khajak Barsamian of the
Diocese of the Armenian Church, AGMM Board of Trustees Chairman Hirair
Hovnanian, AGMM Committee Chairman Van Krikorian, former chairwoman of
the Armenian Assembly of America Board of Directors Annie Totah, and
former chairman of the Armenian Assembly of America Board of Directors
Peter Vosbikian.
Photo courtesy Naltchayan Photography