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Today, we celebrate the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary, the Holy Mother-of-God. The story of Mary’s birth is an amazing example of how God can work through impossible situations to bring about His divine plan. It’s a powerful reminder of God’s faithfulness in our own lives and the importance of trusting Him, even when the odds seem stacked against us.
The parents of Mary, Joachim, and Anna were devout and faithful, but they had a challenge that seemed impossible to overcome—they were childless and had grown old. For years, they had prayed for a child, believing, trusting, holding onto faith—even when it seemed impossible. Year after year, seeing no sign of hope. But they never stopped believing and praying.
A hundred year ago this day, a pivotal legal case, United States v. Tatos Osgihan Cartozian, came to an end with a conclusive victory for the defendant. The victory was not only for Cartozian, a prominent rug dealer in Portland, Oregon (pictured in the photo with his daughters), but also for the Armenian American community.
The reaction against immigration in the post-World War I period was an extension of the process of racism and dehumanization that had been already present since the last quarter of the nineteenth century. First it was the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and then the virulent calls for restriction against the immigration from eastern and southwestern Europe and western Asia in the 1890s and 1900s. The Alien Land
