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AZYaateeh Wrote: Apr 26, 2012 8:08 PM

Excuse me, but no, those 45 million *only* includes the ones killed *because they were Christians*. It doesn't include all the other people who died from the 20th century's wars, political murders, and deliberate famines, who happened to be Christian: only those killed *because of their faith*.

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Mr. Obama, We are Ashamed of You

From the time Christianity was introduced to the people living in the region known to historians as Armenia by the apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus in the 1^st century up until 1915, Christian Armenians built and worshipped in churches all throughout present day Turkey.

Armenia was the first Christian nation adopting the religion in 301 AD. According to church records (which were diligently kept by priests) in 1915 there were, outside of the city of Istanbul in Turkey: 2538 Apostolic Churches, 560 Protestant churches, 451 Armenian Monasteries and 1996 Armenian Schools.

These were beautiful structures that lasted for millennium that...