Images of a faithful land

By Richard Shaw
N EXHIBITION Of photos from Armenia to celebrate 1700 years of Christianity in the country has taken place in London.
The photos. taken by Catholic Herald photographer Ann Doherty between 1999 and 2000, were displayed over Easter Week in the Armenian Cathedral of St Sarki in Kensington.
Ann Doherty said: "It was timed to coincide with international celebrations of the 1700th anniversary of Christianity in the country, which was the first ever Christian state.
"Now we are taking the exhibition to America — to Los Angeles, which has the biggest population of Armenians outside Armenia itself."
Pope John Paul II is expected to visit Armenia this June.
Meanwhile, the Pope has recognised one Armenian victim of the genocide by the Ottoman Turks as a martyr for the faith.
Archbishop Ignatius Chookrallah Maloyan of Mardin was killed in 1915.
The decree, which opens the road to his beatification, was announced on the day that Armenians were internationally commemorating the 1915-1918 genocide.