More than two years after her husband became the first U.S. diplomat to publicly acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, Donna Evans revealed some of the behind-the-scene details of Ambassador John Evans’ tenure in Armenia and his dramatic forced retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service. She spoke at the Armenian Assembly’s Annual Capital Region Holiday Reception held [...]

MADRID (Armenpress)–Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian addressed the 15th annual OSCE Foreign Ministers Council in Madrid Thursday where he highlighted Armenia’s successful parliamentary elections and reflected on the progress of OSCE reforms, the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Below is the text of his speech: Mr. Chairman, dear colleagues, [...]

DETROIT – When President George W. Bush slapped the Democratic controlled Congress at a nationally televised news conference for failing to send him legislation for his signature and enactment, he also slapped America’s Armenian community. And it was a foul chilling slap at the slaughtered victims of the Armenian genocide, and the survivors who found [...]

Departing from Yerevan on September 22, 2006, Zaven Khanjian, well- known and respected leader in the Armenian community of Southern California and the author of this book, embarked on an 18-day tour of Western Armenia, Cilicia and Constantinople, led by Armen Aroyan. On Thursday, September 28, Zaven, accompanied by his wife Sona and a [...]

You’ve heard the above saying right? A thief always lives in fear. Edgar Allen Poe probably did this most justice in his “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Perhaps we should be sending copies of this short story to Jane Harman. Her most recent demonstration of this guilt-ridden type of behavior occurred on Wednesday, November 28th when [...]

The Armenian Evangelical Church located at 905 West Golf Road, Mount Prospect, Ill. hosted the 88th annual meeting and related activities of the Armenian Missionary Association of America held from October 12-15. On the morning of October 12, the Armenian Evangelical World Council (AEWC) met at the church which was followed by a seminar presented [...]

MONTEBELLO–The Montebello City Council Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution in support of the Armenian Genocide Resolution currently pending before the United States Congress (H. Res. 106). Echoing, H. Res. 106, the Montebello Resolution also called upon President George Bush to “accurately characterize the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1.5 million Armenia’s as genocide and to [...]

GLENDLAE, Calif.– Marie Ghanime has had her hands on a little bit of everything while working as an intern with the Armenian National Committee-Western Region these past couple of months. An Administration and Development Intern for the 2007 Autumn Session of the ANC-WR’s Internship-Externship Program, Ghanime has done everything from helping database articles about the [...]

GLENDALE, Calif.–As part of the 2007 Autumn Session of the Armenian National Committee-Western Region Internship-Externship Program, Rafi Orphali has learned a lot about civic engagement while working as a Public and Media Relations intern. While his primary responsibility as an intern was to help draft press releases covering ANC activities, he has also been in [...]

FRESNO–The Society for Armenian Studies announces the publication of volume 16 of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies. This latest volume includes eight articles and fourteen book reviews. Dr. John Greppin of Cleveland State University served as the editor and Dr. Peter Cowe, Narekatsi Professor of Armenian Studies at UCLA, as the book [...]

LOS ANGELES–Friends and supporters of California State Assemblymember Anthony Portantino (D-44) will gather on December 16, 2007 to raise funds for his reelection campaign.Portantino, a longtime supporter of the Armenian National Committee, has been an active and effective advocate on behalf of his Armenian American constituents.The event is being hosted by ANC supporters from both [...]

LOS ANGELES–The Armenian National Committee ’s Western Region (ANC-WR) welcomed students from the Mesrobian Armenian School on Nov. 8 to the organization’s regional office. Mesrobian students had set out to walk 10 miles to the ANC-WR office in a walkathon to support community efforts regarding the passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H. Res. 106). [...]

Father Antoine Saroyan, pastor of Saint Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Catholic Parish in Glendale had the great honor and privilege of attending his thirty-second annual meeting with his professor, Pope Benedict XVI. As a doctoral student of dogmatic theology at the University of Regensburg, Germany, from 1975 through 1984, Father Antoine Saroyan drew inspiration from [...]

LOS ANGELES–Former California State Assemblymember and State Senate candidate Carol Liu has issued a letter strongly disagreeing with Congresswoman Jane Harman’s effort to kill the Armenian Genocide resolution (H. Res. 106) pending in the House of Representatives. In her correspondence, Liu outlines that the “United States cannot, even by omission, condone the continued misrepresentation of [...]