Article: Armenian church holds faith of ages.(Culture, Et Cetera)(The Capital Pulpit)

Holy Cross (Soorp Khatch) Church, an outpost of ancient Armenian Christianity in Bethesda, yesterday celebrated a visit by its new bishop.

The High Mass was an occasion of joy, but memories of enduring faith and Armenian suffering were not far away. Armenians, preached to by apostles, formed the first national church in 301 A.D.

This century has been most cruel to its people. Two million were killed during Ottoman Turkish expansion, and then came Soviet tyranny. For centuries, Armenian Christianity had a "see," or center, at home and in Lebanon - the Cilicia See. Soviet rule divided the U.S. church in 1933, ...

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