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POPE FRANCIS RECALLS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Gazzetta del Sud , Italy
May 8 2014
08/05/2014
Modern-day martyrdom seed of Christian unity, pontiff says
Vatican City - Pope Francis on Thursday recalled the Armenian genocide
in the early 20th century during an audience with Karekin II, head of
the Catholicate of Etchmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church. "The
number of disciples who shed their blood for Christ in the tragic
events of the last century is certainly higher than that of the early
martyrs," Francis told Karekin II, elected 132nd Supreme Patriarch
and Catholicos of All Armenians in 1999. "In this martyrology the
children of the Armenian nation have a place of honour," continued
the Argentinian pontiff. "Their tragic and noble testimony must not
be forgotten," he said. "Just as in the early Church the blood of
the martyrs sowed the seed of new Christians, so in modern times
the blood of many Christians has become the seed of unity" among
Christian churches, continued the pope. An estimated 1.5 million
Armenians were systematically exterminated under the Ottoman Empire
during the First World War in what is said to be the second most
studied act of genocide after the Jewish Holocaust three decades later.
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Gazzetta del Sud , Italy
May 8 2014
08/05/2014
Modern-day martyrdom seed of Christian unity, pontiff says
Vatican City - Pope Francis on Thursday recalled the Armenian genocide
in the early 20th century during an audience with Karekin II, head of
the Catholicate of Etchmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church. "The
number of disciples who shed their blood for Christ in the tragic
events of the last century is certainly higher than that of the early
martyrs," Francis told Karekin II, elected 132nd Supreme Patriarch
and Catholicos of All Armenians in 1999. "In this martyrology the
children of the Armenian nation have a place of honour," continued
the Argentinian pontiff. "Their tragic and noble testimony must not
be forgotten," he said. "Just as in the early Church the blood of
the martyrs sowed the seed of new Christians, so in modern times
the blood of many Christians has become the seed of unity" among
Christian churches, continued the pope. An estimated 1.5 million
Armenians were systematically exterminated under the Ottoman Empire
during the First World War in what is said to be the second most
studied act of genocide after the Jewish Holocaust three decades later.
http://popefrancisnewsapp.com/
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/91193/Pope-Francis-recalls-Armenian-genocide.html