Minute for Mission: Armenian Genocide Commemoration-April 24, 1915

On this day, we remember the Armenian Genocide that began a century ago.
Centered geographically on Noah’s Mount Ararat, Armenians survived the clash of Egyptian, Mongol, Byzantine, Arab, Persian, and Ottoman cultures, and were the first to officially claim Christianity as their national religion in 301.
 

Yet from 1915 to 1923, 1.5 million Armenians perished, and a million more were deported from Asia Minor. Through forced marches, torture, concentration camps, starvation, and executions, the Ottomans systematically expunged Armenians from their motherland of the past 3000 years. Genocide survivors built new lives in Syria; they erected Holy Martyrs Armenian Church and Memorial in the desert at Der Zor—until an ISIS attack took it down.