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...Manoukian Public Service Program, announced earlier this month, was endowed by a London philanthropist and includes a fellowship for Armenians to study for a master’s degree at KSG and an executive training program for Armenian government officials...
...Church of the Nativity [WORLD, May 20] occurred in one of the holiest sites in Christianity, the presumed birthplace of Jesus. I found the way the besieged Palestinians behaved at this holy site extremely disturbing. Instead of respecting the sanctuary offered them, they acted like common thieves, robbing the Armenian priests of their crucifixes and blankets. If the situation were different and Christian militants were seeking refuge in a mosque or some other Muslim holy site, would they be granted sanctuary? Would the abuse of an Islamic holy site in Mecca be tolerated by Muslim clerics? Or would such actions...
...Church of the Nativity, one of the world's oldest working churches, has never been an especially peaceful place. The holy men who run it--Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman Catholic clerics--bicker over who gets to clean which piece of sacred wall, who can walk in which aisle. The theft in 1847 of the silver star that was meant to mark the precise place where Jesus was born is thought to have helped start the Crimean War. Seized and besieged by a host of armies over the centuries, the church has even inspired bickering among scholars, who argue...
...hard-liners and Palestinians of every stripe complained that it was a sellout. But the situation had grown desperate. The city of Bethlehem had been in lockdown since April 2; food inside the church compound had virtually run out. Eight Palestinians had been killed by Israeli gunfire, and an Armenian monk had been wounded by an Israeli sniper...
Kirakossian called for “more U.S. attention towards Armenian-Turkish relations...