This Sunday, April 6, memorial day of the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda, Eastern Christians, on the initiative of the Armenian Institute of France, chaired by Antoine Bagdikian, gathered in one heart in memory of the victims of 1915 genocide perpetrated on the orders of the Ottoman Young Turk government.

The ecumenical service is given for this second edition in the Saint-Denis Basilica, brought together Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs and Greeks, Apostolic, Catholic and Orthodox rites before an audience of nearly 700 people and personalities, such as His Excellency Viguen Tchitetchian Ambassador of Armenia in France, Mr. Apostolas BALTAS First Counsellor of the Embassy of Greece, Ms. PAPATRIANTAFYLLOU Second Counsellor of the Embassy of Greece, Helena MINA First Counsellor of the Embassy of Cyprus, as well as M . LUSIGNAN Philippe Roux, descendant of King Leo V of Cilicia ..

Choir of the Orthodox Church of Antioch Greque

Each community sang and prayed in his tongue in a huge wave of solidarity and strong emotions triggered by choirs consist mainly children, in memory of the 1.5 million Armenians, 250,000 Assyrians and Chaldeans, Syriacs and 100 000 300 Pontic Greeks exterminated 000 between 1915 and 1923.

The surprise came from the mouth of Father Manuel RACHO-Hovanessian, representing the RP Mesrop BARSAMIAN which, in a firm and long sermon, repeating and paraphrasing the inquiry of the Pharisees denounced with extreme force carelessness community International before the drama unfolding in Syria.

Every first Sunday of April, all of these communities will come together to make themselves known and to create a movement to better know how to defend against the destruction of the Christian heritage still continue with such aggression in the city Kessab Syrian territory by Islamists came and encouraged by laTurquie.

Read below for speech Antoine Bagdikian, Philippe Haroutounian and Daniel Augustus for Assyro-Chaldeans.

Jean Eckian + photos