"If you don't recognize it, the wound never heals."

Recently, President Obama had the opportunity to fulfill a campaign promise when he was visiting Turkey - to call the Armenian Genocide, committed by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, a "Genocide". That opportunity passed and, quite frankly, didn't surprise most of us too much that a President would reverse course from campaign promises on the issue.

A friend of a friend writes a blog entitled "Stop Genocide - Change.org" (you can see her blog by clicking here). She has committed her life to bringing recognition to genocides in our history and coming up with ways to ensure future ones never occur. A daunting and enormous task, to say the least!

Stories of extreme hardship are shared by every single genocide survivor, not just Armenians. They each have their own stories of hardship and survival that we, as the next generation, must honor by fighting to have these atrocities recognized and preventing their repetition. The debt is due.

And as we honor the Armenian Genocide today, let us also pray for God's people who continue to suffer persecution and war through out the world.

The link to a recent article on this issue can be found by clicking here.

The link to the blog is: http://genocide.change.org/