CHURCH PLEA FOR ARMENIA

Anglican and Eastern Union Petitions President Wilson

NOVEMBER 14, 1915
The Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches Union, and organizations and of Russian,
Greek, and Syrian members of the Orthodox Eastern Church resident in the United
States, has addressed a petition to the President in behalf of the Armenians.
The petition urges that he makes earnest representations to the German Government as
the ally of Turkey with respect to the destruction key with respect to the destruction of
hundreds of thousands of Armenian Christians.
"We would earnestly suggest, " runs the petition, "that by a strong presentation of the
deep concern of the American people and of the prejudice that is produced in this country
against Germany's cause by the absence of any known effort on her part to prevent the
deliberate extermination of a Christian people by her Turkish ally, the Imperial
Government, to sure on the Ottoman Government, to give orders to bring to an end this
persecution and massacring."
The petition also asks that the American mission schools be protested, and that American
transports be sent to take away as many of the Armenians as possible to Christian
countries.