By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest, Hungary BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife) – An Iranian Christian fath .
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife and BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest
WASHINGTON/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)– Christian rights activists welcome news that Joe Biden will become the first American president to formally recognize the massacre of Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire as an act of genocide.
The genocide in 1915 of an estimated 1.5 million mainly Christian Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces is marked annually worldwide on April 24. Turkey contests the figures and denies that the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute a genocide.
Ronald Reagan was the last U.S. president to refer to the “genocide of the Armenians” when discussing the Holocaust in 1981. But he later backtracked on using the term while in office under pressure from Turkey, the successor state to the Ottoman Empire, which collapsed after World War I.
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest, Hungary
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife) – An Iranian Christian father and his young son, who were detained on the Hungarian-Serbian border for 527 days, have been moved to a home in northwest Hungary following international pressure. A Baptist church helped Abouzar Soltani, a convert from Islam to Christianity, and his 12-year-old-son Armin to find an apartment in the Hungarian city of Győr, BosNewsLife learned.
Both had been living in blue containers since late 2018 after asking for asylum in Hungary on political and religious grounds. Several other Christian converts from Iran received asylum in Hungary in recent days, well-informed sources told BosNewsLife.