Football Competition!


The Emmanuel Chanitz Sports Committee has decided to participate in a football tournament that will take place in Dar el-Awlad Orphanage, on Saturday 31/March, from 1pm to 6pm. Our chanitzagans are getting ready and they are looking forward to participate with high spirits, good moral, and come back with good results.

Everyone is welcome to encourage our team(s).
Sports Committee

More Than a Visit…

It was a very nice for me to go and visit the elderly in KAHL. At first I hesitated either to go or not, because I personally don’t feel comfortable around older people but later I thought that there is something else behind it. The idea is that they need young people who are full of life to come and visit them, talk to them, encourage them and make them feel happy. Having that in mind, I changed my mind and I decided to go and I had a great time actually and I felt that they were glad that we visited them and for a short period of time they forgot that they are alone or nobody cares for them. Hope that we can do this kind of stuff more often J

A Special Valentine's Message

Today a special Valentine's messages comes from God, our father who is God of LOVE, different from the "worldly" LOVE...

  • Satan wants to steal our joy

  • Satan wants our faith to be unattractive

  • Satan wants us to doubt about God
  • Satan wants us to stand for nothing

  • Satan doesn't want us to care

  • Satan wants us indecisive

  • Satan does not want us to grow in Christ

  • Satan wants us unsure of our salvation

To set the Christian Alarm system against Satan's Attacks:

  • BE right with God for He knows all that is in your heart and mind

  • BE morally pure by not allowing any immoral thought to take control of your thought life
  • BE honest for God abhors hypocrites

  • BE awestruck, for God is Holy

  • BE avoiding for everything that is evil

  • BE responsible for all that God has given you

  • BE praying for yourself and others

  • BE ready for Satan's attacks
  • BE worshiping even you do not feel like it

  • BE believing anyway, no matter the circumstances

And Finally HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO ALL CHANITSAGANS, Remember that God LOVES you for who you are, whatever you have done or doing =)

Time Magazine Corrects Mistake

Time magazine Europe in a stunning development has decided to insert a video documentary about the Armenian Genocide in its February 12 issue. You may remember last year Time had distributed DVDs as an insert that denied the Armenian Genocide admittedly as a mistake, but which turned out to have been paid by the Turkish government controlled Turkish Chamber of Commerce, which had told Time at the time that the video was a promotional piece for tourism. Time subsequently apologized for the gaffe after being threatened with lawsuits by Armenian and human rights organizations throughout Europe.

Now Yerkir is reporting on Time’s attempt to rectify its own mistake by distributing the documentary about the Armenian Genocide.

The Feb. 12, 2007 issue of the European edition of Time magazine -available in newsstands throughout Europe as of Feb. 2nd — carries a full-page factual announcement on the Armenian Genocide, along with a complimentary DVD, in English and French, which contains a compelling 52-minute documentary on the Armenian Genocide by French director Laurence Jourdan.

The DVD also includes a 46-minute interview with Dr. Yves Ternon, a leading expert on the Armenian Genocide.

Both the DVD and the full-page ad were provided free of charge by Time
Europe (circulation 550,000) after realizing that its staff, without proper
review, had inserted in the June 6, 2005 issue of Time Europe a Turkish DVD as a paid advertisement under the guise of promoting tourism to Turkey.

The Turkish DVD, paid for by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce, was a deceitful attempt to spread malicious lies and denialist propaganda on the Armenian Genocide.

To correct this error, Time (Europe) published, in its October 17, 2005
issue, a critical page-long letter to the editor jointly signed by the
following five French organizations: Memoire 2000, the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF), Comite de Defense de la Cause Armenienne (CDCA) — ANC France, J’Accuse, and the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Among Peoples (MRAP).

In an Editor’s note appended to the letter, Time apologized for disseminating the Turkish DVD. LINK

The Video can be seen at: http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-7199779511612239455&hl=de

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Rakel Dink's Letter to Her Husband Hrant

Rakel Dink's letter is very strong, humane, and spiritual. Read what she has written and read in front of a huge mass, at the funeral of her husband. She says she owes it to Jesus.

"I was chosen to be the spouse of my chutak. I am here today full of immense grief and dignity. My children, my family, you and I are in mourning. This silent love bestows upon us some fortitude. It enables us to experience within us a sorrowful calm.

In the Bible, the gospel of John 15:13, it is stated that there is no greater love than for a person to give up his life for the sake of his friends.

My dear friends, today we send off half of my soul, my beloved, the father of my children and your brother. We are going to conduct a march without any slogans and without showing any disrespect to those around us. Today we are going to generate immense sound through our silence.

Today begins the moment when the darkness of the valleys rises towards brightness.

Whoever the assassin may be, whether he was 17 or 27 years old, I know that he was once a baby. My brothers and sisters, one cannot accomplish anything without first questioning the darkness that creates an assassin from such a baby...

My brothers and sisters,

It was Hrant's love for honesty, for transparency, for his friends that brought him here. His love that challenged fear made him great. They say: "He was a great man." I ask you: "Was he born great?" No! He too was born just like us. He did not come from the heavens; he too was created from earth. But what made him great was his living spirit; his deeds, his style, and the love in his eyes and his heart. It was what he did, the style he chose, the love in his heart that made him great.

A person does not become great naturally; it is through his deeds that he becomes great... Yes, he became great because he thought great things and pronounced great words. You too all thought great things by coming here. You talked greatly through your silence; you too are great.

But do not let this suffice; do not be content with this alone.

Hrant marked the birth of a new era in Turkey and you have all been his seal. With him changed the headlines, dialogues, and bans. For him, there were no taboos or forbidden topics. As it is stated in the scriptures, it all sprang from his heart. He paid a great price. Futures for which great prices are paid can only be accomplished through such love and belief; not with hatred, insults, by holding one blood superior to another. This rise is only possible if one sees and respects the other as oneself, if one assumes oneself to be the other.

They separated him from the heaven of his home he had created with the help of Jesus. They made him spread his wings to the eternal celestial heavens - before his eyes tired out, before his body had the chance to age, before he could become sick, before he could spend enough time with his loved ones.

We too shall come, my beloved. We too shall come to that matchless heaven. Love and love alone enters there. Love and love alone that is superior to the speech of humans and angels, to prophecy, to mastery of all the mysteries, to faith that moves mountains, to sharing all one possesses, even to giving up one's body up to flames.

Only that love will enter heaven. There we shall live together forever in true love. A love that is not jealous of anyone, a love that does not covet the property of anyone else, a love that does not murder anyone, a love that does not belittle anyone, a love that holds one's brother and sister more dear than oneself, a love that abandons one's own allocation, a love that demands the rights of one's brother and sister. A love that is found in the Messiah. And a love that has been poured into us.

Who could forget what you have done, what you have said, my beloved? Which darkness could erase them? Could fear? Could life? Could injustice? Could the temptations of the world? Or could death have them forgotten, my beloved? No, no darkness is capable of having them forgotten, my beloved.

I too wrote you a love letter, my beloved. Its cost was dear to me too, my beloved. I owe it to Jesus that I was capable of penning this, my beloved. Let us give his due to Him, my beloved. Let us give back everyone their due, my beloved.

You departed from those you loved; you departed from your children, your grandchildren. You departed from those here who came to send you off. You departed from my embrace. You did not depart from your country, my beloved."

Caroling Jesus' Birth - Աւետում


Friday night at 9pm the chanitzagans gathered in the Chanitz room to prepare for the caroling. The groups first started as one team with 2 vans and then divided into 2 groups, each for different districts. The caroling started at around 10pm and ended at 6am, gathering at the pastor's home to rest and eat.

Krisdos Dznav yev Haydnetzav ...

WHY DO ARMENIANS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS ON JANUARY 6 ?

"Lraper.org: A question often asked is why Armenians do not celebrate Christmas on 25 December, as the rest of the world generally does. Just as chronologically there is no clear date for Christ's Holy Nativity, the Gospels also do not contain one. But historically all Christian Churches up until the fourth century celebrated the Festival of Christ's Nativity on 6 January.
According to the Roman Catholic Church, the date of 6 January was changed because the pagan traditional festival celebrated on 25 December that marked the birth of the Sun was declared invalid. But Christians continued to hold to those kinds of pagan festivals on that date. In order to break their influence, the Church hierarchy defined 25 December as Christmas, that is, as the Festival of the Holy Nativity of Christ, while 6 January was defined as the visit of the three magi to the newly born Christ.
Because the Armenians did not experience the problem of Saturnalia, i.e. the Festival of the Birth of the Sun, and because the Armenian Church was not a satellite of the Roman Church, Armenians were unaffected by this change.
According to church traditions, Armenians continue to celebrate Christmas on 6 January.
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt carries on with the same tradition together with the Armenians. However, the Ethiopian and Russian Orthodox Churches treat 6 January as the eve of the festival, which is celebrated on 7 January."

I will add here that the Armenian Catholic Church celebrates Christmas on 25 Dec. following the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. On the other hand, although the Evangelicals in the West celebrate on 25 Dec., the Armenian Evangelical Church celebrates Christmas on Jan. 6 (at least the Churches in the Near East).