POPE FRANCIS REITERATES HIS EARLIER RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
June 05, 2013 | 11:43
Pope Francis, during a meeting Monday with a delegation led by Nerses
Bedros XIX, Catholicos Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenian Catholics
at the Vatican reiterated his earlier recognition of the Armenian
Genocide, Asbarez reported quoting Diario Armenia.
Meeting one of the descendants of the Armenian Genocide victim,
Pope said “the first genocide of the 20th Century was that of the
Armenians.”
Earlier he made similar statement when he headed the Catholic Church
in Buenos Aires as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio
Seven years ago, during events marking the 91st anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide in Buenos Aires, then Archbishop of Buenos Aires
Jorge Mario Bergoglio urged Turkey to recognize the Genocide as the
“gravest crime of Ottoman Turkey against the Armenian people and the
entire humanity.”
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