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The Armenian Church of the Holy Cross on Akdamar Island, Lake Van in Turkey. Religion News Service photo by Tania Karas
In All Things
Tania Kara - Religion News Service
Yukari Bakracli a tiny Kurdish village outside the city of Van in Turkey rsquo s southeast is home to the ruins of a once-famous 11th-century Armenian Christian monastery Known to Armenians as Varagavank it thrived as a place of worship until Turkish forces looted it and murdered parishioners in