ARAM I CALLS ON ARMENIANS TO ATTEND DER-ZOR

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.01.2010 17:41 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Considering the special importance of Der Zor in the
history of Armenian Genocide, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia
Aram I declared the desert as a place of all-Armenian pilgrimage back
in 2002.

The initiative received support by the Armenian Apostolic Church.

A special inspection was created on the territory Der-Zor, in the
neighborhood of Markat and other areas, with the Great House of
Cilicia Archimandrite Vahan Berbeyan being appointed as inspector.

Pilgrimage-related issues are dealt with by a committee consisting
of Lebanese-Armenian community representatives.

Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I calls on Armenians
to attend Der-Zor to commemorate the victims of Genocide.

Der-Zor: a desert in Syria which became a major destination point in
the history of Armenian Genocide.

The 1915-23 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire was the deliberate
and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman
Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by
massacres, and deportations involving forced marches under conditions
designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number
of deaths reaching 1.5 million.

The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
Genocide survivors.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress