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Article: A 'New Era' for Armenian Christians; Patriarch Makes First Pontifical Visit to U.S.
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- The Washington Post
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- January 20, 1996
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The supreme head of the Armenian Church experienced
Washington's snow jam firsthand when gridlocked traffic made him
late for a Monday afternoon service at St. Mary's Armenian Apostolic
Church on Fessenden Street NW. For His Holiness Karekin I, the delay
was a minor inconvenience and the city's anxiety over the blizzard a
puzzlement.
"This kind of minimal difficulty, in our judgment, cannot
become a reason of complaint," said the pontiff, whose small country
in the Caucasus was ravaged by an earthquake that killed at least
25,000 people in 1988.
Armenia also survived the loss of at least 1 million lives in a
conflict with the Ottoman Turks from 1915 to 1922, as well as 70
years of ...