The Diocese
Posted: 09/19/2019
ANCA-Western Region's road trip to the Pacific Northwest commenced on Sunday, August 18 with a visit and presentation at the Holy Resurrection Armenian Apostolic Church in Seattle. ANCA-WR representatives provided an ANCA360 presentation, discussing the wide-ranging activities and initiatives of the organization, and answered questions from the audience. Liyah Babayan discussed her new book, “Liminal: A Refugee Memoir,” which documents her family’s survival story of the anti-Armenian pogroms in Soviet Azerbaijan and their journey and adaptation to life in the United States as refugees in the early 1990s.
“Seattle, Portland, Boise, Twin Falls, and Salt Lake City personify the mosaic of Armenians from all over the world — speaking multiple languages, scattered from the motherland by persecution, planting seeds of unity through faith, culture, and identity,” stated Liyah Babayan. “My love for my people deepened as I witnessed how they rebuilt communities out of absolutely nothing, even with the geographical disadvantage and disconnection from the greater diaspora in California.”
The next destination was Portland, OR, where local community members congregated at the St. Kevork Armenian Church for a meet and greet and an ANCA360 presentation. Some traveled for over three hours to be present at the gathering and the subsequent presentation. Earlier that same day, delegation members and local priest Rev. Fr. Mashdots Keshishian met with Representative Blumenauer’s office as well as with the Catholic Archdiocese of Oregon to discuss the priorities of the local Armenian American community.
