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following excerpts are from AINA.org:
Pope
Francis infuriated the government of Turkey by using the word
"genocide" leading up to April 24, the 100th anniversary of
the start of the mass murder of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in
what was then the Ottoman Empire. That atrocity, amid the chaos and
rivalries of World War One, is often regarded as the forerunner and
inspiration for Nazi efforts to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
In
the April 15 issue of The Christian Century, Baylor University
historian Philip Jenkins reports on another 2015 centennial that
major media have ignored -- the "Sayfo" ("sword"
year) memorialized by Christian Assyrians. Among other events,
historians will examine this at the Free University of Berlin June
24-28. During that dying era of the empire with its historic Muslim
Caliphate, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks were also killed
during the "Pontic" ethnic cleansing.
The
hatred toward all three Christian groups a century ago finds
unnerving echoes in current attacks by Muslim fanatics in the Mideast
and Africa, most recently the video beheadings of Ethiopian
Christians in Libya. Assyrians are also victimized once again, now by
ISIS under its purported restoration of the Caliphate in Syria and
Iraq. The Assyrians' story is part of the over-all emptying out of
Christianity across the Mideast.
Assyrians
have three sectors that differ doctrinally on the divine and human
natures of Jesus Christ. The "uniate" Chaldean Catholics
loyal to the Pope follow the definition from the A.D. 451 Council of
Chalcedon. Two groups do not, the "Nestorians" in the
Church of the East, and the monophysite "Oriental Orthodox"
(distinct from Eastern Orthodoxy, which adheres to Chalcedon).
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Concerning Other Little-known Religious Genocides on the Edge of the News
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