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Best-preserved early Christianity monument is discovered in Karabakh

October 29, 2016 by administrator

The Amaras Monastery, which is located in Martuni Region of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh), is one of the best preserved monuments that were built during the early Christianity.

And as a result of archaeological excavations in the area of this monastery, the eastern entrance to the tomb of St. Grigoris—who was ordained as bishop of the Eastern Lands of Armenia, which included Artsakh—was discovered in the St. Grigoris Church, which was built in the early 4th century.

“Of course, the Azerbaijanis had conducted excavations [here] before us [i.e. Armenians],” said archeologist Hamlet Petrosyan. “We also found the 1959 bottle, where it was written that they [i.e. the Azerbaijanis] conducted excavations and found nothing. But we achieved the desired result.”

Petrosyan also noted that the discovered eastern entrance to this tomb has a slab floor, which is not seen in any other Christian structures.

The NKR Ministry of Economy has informed that the museumification of this newly-discovered tomb was conducted in the year past, and by way of installing a glass cover, which is a new phenomenon for post-Soviet Armenia and Karabakh.

The Amaras Monastery is among the sites of early period Armenian architecture in Artsakh.

Source: news.am

Turkey Christianity no longer a religion, Islam is says Turkish minister

September 5, 2014 by administrator

ISTANBUL – Doğan News Agency
Christianity has ceased to be a religion but has become a culture of its own, Turkish Environment and Urbanism Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar said at a recent conference hosted by the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Women’s Group.

“The biggest three countries in the world are not Muslim countries. China, India – only the U.S. believes in a single God. Spirituality and religious feelings are weakening,” Bayraktar said.

“There are 2.5 billion Christians in the world,” Bayraktar said. “Christianity is no longer a religion. It’s a culture now. But that is not what a religion is like. A religion teaches; it is a form of life that gives one peace and happiness. That is what they want to turn [Islam] into as well.”

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History repeat itself, How Turkey successfully used the “Western-Power” to destroy christianity in Anatolia 1914 and now 2014 in middle east

August 2, 2014 by administrator

By Wally Sarkeesian

The Turkish government in 1914 alliance with Germany as cover up, systematically destroyed the indigenous christian population from Anatolia currently called Turkey and now alliance with USA (NATO) power using so called ISIS systematically destroying christian populations from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and all african continent.

In northern Iraq, recently conquered by the Turkish zealots of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levent (ISIL), who refer to themselves now as the Islamic State (IS), gave Christians in Mosul three choices: convert to Islam, pay a special tax (about $750, on this occasion), or be killed. They all fled, and now Mosul is Christian-free for the first time in almost two millennia. while ISIS slaughter and massacre Arab and christians yet Turkish so called hostages come home not a scratch moreover Turkish consulate in Mosul is now ISIS head quarter. to add insult to injury the 1,800 Truck that ISIL using come from Turkey report by turkish news media. moreover do not be surprised the other 49 so called hostage in mosul will come home soon safe and no scratch.

There were still about 60,000 Christians in Mosul when the United States and its sidekicks invaded Iraq eleven years ago. By last year, it was down to 30,000. Only two months after the arrival of Turkish secret army ISIL, there are none. Most have fled to Kurdistan with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. They are not going back, and if they can they will leave the Middle East forever.

What has changed? For many centuries, the Christian minority lived in relative peace and prosperity under Arab Muslim rule for centuries until the Turks show up. In the early 20th century, they were in the forefront of the nationalist and literary renaissance in the Arab world. But in the past decade, about a quarter of the Arab world’s 12 million Christians have emigrated, and the flow is increasing every year.

Almost a hundred years after the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the AKP government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan appears to have proven William Faulkner’s saying: “The past is not dead. In fact it is not even past.”

Turkey staged and intervened in the Syrian war from its early days . Erdogan lead the aggression – along with other countries – provided anti-regime forces safe havens inside Turkish territories and turned a blind eye to the influx of foreign fighters into Syria, including thousands from Turkic Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Kosovo,and other Central Asian countries. Those fighters currently form the strongest elements of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and other al-Qaeda affiliated groups.

do not be surprise the other so called hostages will free..