{"id":45840,"date":"2010-09-20T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/20\/muslim-armenians-attend-holy-cross-divine-liturgy\/"},"modified":"2010-09-20T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T11:25:00","slug":"muslim-armenians-attend-holy-cross-divine-liturgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/20\/muslim-armenians-attend-holy-cross-divine-liturgy.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Muslim Armenians&#8217; Attend Holy Cross Divine Liturgy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">On Sept. 19, a number of Diasporan Armenians, as well as members of Turkey&#8217;s Armenian community attended the Divine Liturgy which took place at Holy Cross Armenian Church on Aghtamar Island. Also in attendance was a group calling themselves &#8220;Muslim Armenians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">\u201cWe could not live in our true identities for generations. Although my grandfathers converted to Islam to save their lives during the painful events of their times, they secretly kept their identities as Armenians,\u201d said Hac<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u0131<\/span> Mehmet Ali, a spokesperson of the group, reports the Hurriyet Daily News &amp; Economic Review.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 19, a number of Diasporan&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[11605,10491,10488,15836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}