How Americans can help an ancient Christian community 'find a way home'
How Americans can help an ancient Christian community 'find a way home'
By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter
WASHINGTON — The United States has the ability to help reverse the ethno-religious cleansing of Armenian Christians and negotiate the safe return of one of the oldest Christian communities to its native homeland, a human rights advocate has said.
John Eibner, president of Christian Solidarity International, a Switzerland-based non-governmental organization, joined two Swiss members of parliament — Erich Vontobel and Lukas Reimann — and Vartan Oskanian, the former foreign minister of Armenia, for a Tuesday briefing on Capitol Hill about the continued plight of Armenian Christians, which is receiving scant attention in the U.S. and around the globe.
The Swiss-led delegation presented Switzerland's peace initiative, which seeks to facilitate the safe return of displaced Armenian Christians to Nagorno-Karabakh...
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