SANA touches upon Pope Francis’ Mass on Armenian Genocide centenary
14:33, 13 April 2015
YEREVAN, APRIL 13, ARMENPRESS: The Syrian agency SANA touched upon the service, conducted by Pope Francis in Vatican, on the occasion of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, who stressed Sunday that the mass killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule 100 years ago amounted to “genocide”. Armenpress reports that speaking at a Vatican church service in Rome, Pope Francis said the Ottoman Turks’ crimes against the Armenian people were “widely considered ‘the first genocide of the 20th century’.”
The source also informed that he was citing a statement signed by John Paul II and the Armenian patriarch in 2000 which mentioned three other “massive and unprecedented tragedies” that were committed in the past century. This was the first time the Pope has used the term “genocide” to describe the bloody massacres in which up to 1.5 million Armenian people were systematically killed by Ottoman forces in 1915, while millions of others were displaced.
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