ARMENIA, JUSTICE, GENOCIDE AND RELIGION
Harry Hagopian
Ekklesia
May 14 2010
UK
Armenia is an independent country that used to be part of the USSR. It
is located in the southern Caucasus and borders Iran and Turkey as
well as Georgia and Azabaijan. It therefore sits in the midst of a
range of national, political, socio-cultural and religious identities
of geo-political significance.
But it is, equally, constituted by a diaspora, a reality that includes
many people dispersed across the world, and it is a people who seek
to live towards the future with an awareness of a horrific past –
the genocide of 1915-23.
In this podcast, available here on Ekklesia – by arrangement from,
and in association with, Premier Christian Radio – a leading legal,
political and ecumenical Christian consultant (himself from an
Armenian Orthodox background) explores the ‘hidden story’ of a people,
illustrating why it is of crucial significance for human flourishing
in the 21st century.
This programme was originally broadcast on PCR, with interviewer
Andy Walton, close to the official annual anniversary of the Armenian
genocide () on 24 April 2010.
Listen to the whole programme (MP3) here:
n6.mp3
© Harry Hagopian and Premier Christian Radio
().
Harry Hagopian, a former executive secretary for the Middle
East Council of Churches (MECC) is now an ecumenical, legal and
political consultant for the Armenian Orthodox Church and well
as an interfaith adviser to the Catholic Bishops Conference
of England and Wales. A regular contributor to Ekklesia
() , Dr Hagopian is also
involved with ACEP, the Paris-based Christians in Political Action
(). His own website is called
Epektasis.