News From Chanitz

J. Sagherian has left for USA, where he will stay for some months. He will meet his friends with whom he served during his one-year-service in Northern Ireland.

Keep in touch JAY!

Celebrity Cartoonist Behind Hate Website

Murad Gumen, the Turkish-American author of the attached famous Micky Mouse cartoon is infamous for his part time job - he is the covert webmaster of tallarmeniantale.com, a website that denies the destruction of over a million Christian Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I.

Gumen has been using the pseudo name “Holdwater” in denying the Armenian Genocide and comparing Armenians to rodents. Keeping his real identity secret for many years, Mr. Gumen is now in hot waters.

A Turkish professor of Armenian Genocide, Taner Akcam, is the hunter of Mr. Gumen. Prof. Akcam, author of recent best seller on the Armenian Genocide, was repeatedly called “terrorist” in Mr. Gumen’s website leading to a 4-hour detention of the Turkish historian during a recent trip to Canada.

Prof. Akcam, a long time human rights activist now in exile from his native Turkey, apparently did not endure the personal attacks against him. He did what an average historian would do: go after the documents and sources used on the racist website.

File six in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Institutional Archives, Accession no. 1997-014, box 152 was the answer. This was a personal communication that “Holdwater” made reference to not realizing it was public domain. Making reference to “Holdwater’s” xenophobia that he would lose his job if his identity were revealed, Prof. Akcam the “terrorist” used a nuclear bomb called revealing the truth.

And the truth is - “Holdwater” is Murad Gumen, a celebrity Turkish-American cartoonist and creator of “Wonderguy” (1993) with an unbelievably “wonderful” hate for the Armenian people and the tragedy called genocide that they experienced in 1915.

Taner Akcam’s two articles on Holdwater in English is available at www.blogian.net.

10,000 and On

ARMENIAN EVANGELICAL EMMANUEL CHURCH CHANITZ YOUTH BLOG PASSED THE 10,000 VISITORS AND VIEWERS since March 2006!

Pornography and Its Effects on Our Youth

On 11/06/2007, Mr. M. Ibitian, one of our youth group's committee members, who also teaches at Armenian Evangelical P. & E. Torosian Intermediate School, and is the counselor of the school, had an interview at Vana Tzayn about pornography.

http://www.voiceofvan.net/html/asdghig_gnochagan_haydakir.html

Some of the questions that were asked:
  • What is the definition of pornography?
  • What is the percentage of the pornography users (male/female)?
  • What are the effects?
  • What can parents do in similar situations?
  • Is there a way out?
What do you think, what can be done about addictions?

Hrant Dink Finally Aquitted

Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, slain in January, was officially acquitted in two court cases concluded yesterday at an İstanbul court.

Three other defendants who were facing charges of “insulting Turkishness” and “attempting to influence the judiciary” were also acquitted, though a third similar case opened at a later date will continue.

The two court cases were sent back to a criminal court in the Şişli district after the Court of Appeals ordered a retrial. Retrial of the cases was originally scheduled to begin in February but it was postponed to yesterday, June 14, following Dink’s Jan. 19 assassination by a teenage gunman in downtown İstanbul. Dink, who was the editor of the bilingual Agos daily, was facing charges of insulting Turkishness under the infamous Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code and of attempting to influence the judiciary’s functioning under Article 288 in those two cases.

Two of the defendants, Dink’s son Arat Dink, and Agos editor Serkis Seropyan, appeared in the court for a retrial session of the cases. Lawyers for the defendants demanded acquittal, saying elements of the crime were not in place. The court agreed and acquitted all the defendants in the case.

A similar case in which Dink and other defendants face the same charges of insulting Turkishness was postponed to a later date to allow defense lawyers to prepare their plea.

Dink had become a hated figure for ultranationalists for his comments over an alleged Armenian genocide at the hands of the late Ottoman Empire. He called for reconciliation between Turks and Armenians and was a sharp critic of the Armenian diaspora for its uncompromising stance against Turkey.

Before his death, Dink had complained that the charges of “insulting Turkishness” against him made him a target of nationalist anger.

eMi Volunteers in Kchag Present Their Plan

The eMi group, oh yes. Now where should I begin?
These guys had planned to come here in September 2006, but the Israel-Lebanon-Hizballah war changed their plan.
I only got to meet them on their last Sunday, when part of the group attended the Armenian
Evangelical Emmanuel Church. They were 15 volunteers, of whom 4 came to our Church; John, Irwin, Stewart, and Daniel.
Most of them didn't know each other. As much as they were getting to know about kchag and the people who would use the camp, they were also getting to know each other.
I went up to Kchag (the Armenian Evangelical Christian Endeavor Summer Camp). The guys from our Chanitz were there and they have done a tremendous job guarding the camp. They went through some funny experiences, one of which leaked to us:
They were guarding late at night, when all of a sudden they heard footsteps and saw shadows.
All of them jumped on the infiltrator. When they got to see who the intruder was, they found out
that it was actually Mr. Manasseh, the janitor, who was out during the night to turn off one of the lights. Phhhew... that was close...
I'm sure they have other many other stories to tell...
Mrs. M. Bakalian, was also on 24/7 with the rest of the whole team. She was very happy that she was able to make everyone's stay a blessing. She organized the name tags of the team and she arranged their food, which was prepared by the Ladies Ministry Team of Armenian Evangelical Churches of Ashrafieh, Marash and Emmanuel .
There were many other volunteers I'm sure, who worked behind the screens, without whom this would not have been a successful opportunity.
So, on Sunday, we had lunch together in Kchag and after that the team leader Randy introduced their plan. They came up with a nice and satisfactory plan, on which they will still work and put some more enhancements.

Project Team

The 15 volunteers were:

Randy – eMi Team Leader
Jessy Larsen - Volunteer
Craig Hoffman – eMi Team Co-Leader
Susanne Hoffman – Volunteer
Gene Fagan – Architect
Stuart Godfrey - Architect
Dustin James – Civil Engineer
Irwin Kim – Mechanical Eng. Intern
Brett Tippey - Architect
John McKenzie – Civil/Transport. Eng.
Brad Hansen – Mechanical Engineer
Kendra Hansen – Civil Engineer
Jim Cathey – Electrical Engineer
Mary Ann Cathey - Volunteer
Daniel Buker – Structural Engineering




*Related Post: EMI Christian Group Arrived in Lebanon, Kchag (Քջակ)

Armenian Online Journals (Blogs)

Introduction to the Armenian blogs

In the article by the AGBU entitled: "ARMENIAN BLOGS HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY: IS ANYONE LISTENING?" the author writes about the Armenian blogs:

...a crop of Armenian blogs is emerging to suggest that the blogosphere (as the blog world is called) promises to make a growing impact in the future. From politics to personal stories, blogs are as varied as their authors. While some strive for professionalism and others flounder in navel-gazing, the energy derived from their diversity is what makes blogs some of the best sources of up-to-date information today.

Armenians writing in Armenia

Armenians writing outside Armenia

Non-Armenians writing about Armenia and Armenians

other

Dead blogs (no longer updated)

List from http://www.armeniapedia.org

Turkey after Arat Dink, Hrant Dink's Son

It seems that Turkey is not satisfied with Hrant Dink's death and denying the Armenian Genocide. They are after Arat Dink, Hrant Dink's son, who was murdered outside of Agos newspaper offices. Here's the news:

Agence France Presse -- English
June 14, 2007 Thursday 5:28 PM GMT

Prosecutors called Thursday for a prison sentence of up to three years for the son of a murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist for reproducing an interview his father gave confirming the Armenian genocide.

The public affairs ministry accuses Arat Dink, editor of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, and his colleague Serikis Seropyan, of "denigrating the Turkish national identity".

In a July 2006 edition of Agos, they reproduced an interview Hrant Dink gave to a news agency in which he declared that the massacre of Armenians committed between 1915 and 1917 in southeastern Anatolia constituted a genocide.

"Of course I say this is a genocide. Because the result itself identifies what it is and gives it a name. You can see that a people who have been living on these lands for 4,000 years have disappeared.

This is self-explanatory," Hrant Dink, then editor of Agos, had said.

At Thursday's hearing Dink accused judges of contributing to his father's death by making him a target thanks to their high-profile judicial proceedings.

"I think it is primitive, absurd and dangerous to consider as an insult to Turkish identity the recognition of a historic event as a genocide," he said, quoted by the Anatolia news agency.

Prosecutors said he should be sentenced to between six months and three years in jail.

Hrant Dink, 52, was himself branded a "traitor" by nationalists for urging open debate on the massacres of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire which he labelled as genocide.

He was last year given a six-month suspended sentence for insulting "Turkishness" and faced more charges before being shot dead in January outside the offices of Agos, where he was editor at the time.

The massacre remains a major bone of contention between Armenia and
Turkey and two countries and they have not established diplomatic
ties since Armenia broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991.

Ogun Samast, 17, has confessed to shooting Dink. He and 18 other accomplices will be tried from the beginning of July over the murder, believed to have been committed with ultra-nationalist motives.

(Photolur photo)

Armenian Evangelical Links and Literature







  • Armenian Evangelical Literature


      Le Lumingnon

      Journal of the Armenian Evangelical Youth Fellowship - France

    Armenian Evangelical Churches, Unions, Schools, & Organizations

    The following is a listing of Armenian Protestant and Evangelical Churches, unions, camps, schools, and organizations which have a web presence. We also suggest contacting the Armenian Evangelical Union of North America and/or the Armenian Missionary Association of America (listed below) for a complete world-wide listing.

    Ararat Armenian Congregational Church

    4 Salem Street
    Salem, New Hampshire 03079
    Office: 603.898.7042

    Armenian Brotherhood Bible Church

    1536 East Washington Boulevard
    Pasadena, California 92707
    Office: 626.794.8717
    FAX: 626.797.8985

    Armenian Christian Fellowship of Orange County

    651 Sunflower Street
    Santa Ana, California 92707
    Office: 714.531.4514
    FAX: 714.839.4190

    Armenian Church of the Nazarine

    411 East Acacia Avenue
    Glendale, California 91205
    Office: 818.244.9920
    FAX: 818.244.0104

    Armenian Congregational Church of the Martyrs

    22 Ormond Street
    Worcester, Massachussetts 01609
    Office: 508.753.7650

    Armenian Evangelical Church of Greece

    30 Lamias Street 30
    Palea Kokkinia
    Piraeus 185 42
    Greece
    Office: (30-1) 491.3603
    FAX: (30-1) 490.7867

    Armenian Evangelical Church of Issy Les Moulineaux

    28, Avenue Bourgain
    92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
    Office: (33-1) 47-36-02-50
    FAX: (33-1) 46-44-64-04

    Armenian Evangelical Church of Montreal

    P.O. Box 411 - D'Youville Station
    Montreal, Quebec
    Canada H2P 2V6
    Office: 450.273.7437
    FAX: 450.978.3272

    Armenian Evangelical Church of New York

    152 East 34th Street
    New York, New York 10016
    Office: 212.685.3177
    FAX: 212.889.8338

    Armenian Evangelical College of Beirut

    Beirut, Lebanon

    Armenian Evangelical Emmanuel Church

    Sunday School
    Youth
    Young Adults
    Beirut, Lebanon

    Armenian Evangelical Union of North America

    P.O. Box 25458
    Fresno, California 93729
    Office: 559.433.0746
    FAX: 559.433.1249

    Armenian Evangelical Youth Fellowship - FRANCE

    Ministry to youth in France. Links to Armenian Evangelical camps
    and conferences centers in France - La Fontanelle and La Source

    Armenian Martyrs' Congregational Church

    100 North Edmonds Avenue
    Havertown, Pennsylvania 19083
    Office: 610.446.3330
    FAX: 610.446.3963

    Armenian Missionary Association of America

    31 West Century Road
    Paramus, New Jersey 07652
    Office: 201.265.2607
    FAX: 201.265.6015

    Camp AREV / EJM Armenian Evangelical Conference Center

    P.O. Box 70423
    Pasadena, California 9117-7423
    Office: 626.0517
    FAX: 626.796.1615 Camp/Lodge address:
    1701 Darling Avenue
    Frazier Park, California 93225
    Camp Office: 661.245.2821
    Lodge: 661.245.0906

    First Armenian Church

    380 Concord Avenue
    Belmont, Massachussetts 02478
    Office: 617.484.4779
    FAX: 617.484.2210

    First Armenian Presbyterian Church

    430 South First Street
    Fresno, California 93702
    Office: (559) 237-6638
    FAX: (559) 237-9526
  • Haigazian University
    P.O. Box 11-1748
    Beirut, Lebanon
    Office: (961-1) 349.230/1
    FAX: (961-1) 350.926

    Pilgrim Armenian Congregational Church


    3673 North First Street
    Fresno, California 93726
    Office: 559.229.2915
    FAX: 559.229.6431

    United Armenian Congregational Church


    3480 Cahuenga Boulevard West
    Los Angeles, California 90068
    Office: 323.851.5265
    FAX: 323.851.6726

    Armenian Cilicia Evangelical Church


    Sermons


    As more of our churches place their sermons online we will continue to add links to their pages.

    Ararat Armenian Congregational Church

    Pastor Steve Muncherian's Sermons

    United Armenian Congregational Church

    Armenian Evangelcal Church Arnouville (France)