The Catholic Register, the oldest English Catholic publication in Canada, featured an article by Susan Korah on its January 18 issue, entitled “Armenians Won’t Accept Loss of Artsakh.” The article featured the opinions of His Eminence Archbishop Anoushavan, Prelate, and His Eminence Archbishop Papken, Prelate of the Canadian Prelacy, among others. With reference to the Armenian justified fears of Azerbaijani deliberate destruction, the journalist writes:
“Grieving the loss of their beloved homeland, and haunted by fears of an erasure of their 1,700-year-old history as a Christian nation in Artsakh, their collective anguish can only be described by the Welsh word “hiraeth” (a mixture of yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness and an intense longing for a lost homeland).
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