USA TODAY: …The pontiff was speaking Sunday at the beginning of a Mass in the Armenian Catholic rite in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, attended by dignitaries including Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, to mark 100 years since the killings.
“In the past century our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies,” Francis said, broadcaster RTÉ News reported. “The first, which is widely considered ‘the first genocide of the 20th century’, struck your own Armenian people.”…
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Armenians have long campaigned for recognition that the killings, which happened between 1915 and 1917 under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, constituted genocide… (more)
EDITOR: Let us hope and pray that this decent action on the part of Pope Francis will bring some peace and closure to the Armenian people. Of course it will infuriate the Turks.
