Istanbul-Armenian churches not to join Genocide commemoration bell-ringing

14:12 * 21.03.15

The Armenian churches of Istanbul will not join in the pan-Armenian
Genocide commemoration campaign of ringing bells on April 23, the day
preceding the big tragedy’s centennial.

The Turkish-Armenian publication Agos reports Archbishop Aram
Ateshian, General Vicar (Acting Patriarch) of the Armenian Patriarch
of Constantinople, as saying that they will be instead holding a
commemoration event.

Under an instruction issued earlier by Catholicos of All Armenians
Garegin II, bells will ring 100 times in the Armenian churches around
the world and visitors will be offered to join a holy mass on April 23
to remember the big tragedy’s victims. 19:15 has been chosen as a
symbolic hour of bell-ringing.

The Istanbul patriarch said that the Armenian churches in the city
will be hosting a liturgy on April 22 to remember the Armenian
soldiers killed in the Battle of Gallipoli.

From: A. Papazian