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  • BAKU: Member-churches of WCC going to recognize Armenian "genocide"

    APA, Azerbaijan
    July 31 2014


    Member-churches of World Council of Churches going to recognize
    so-called Armenian `genocide' in 2015

    [ 31 July 2014 12:08 ]

    Members of council also include churches in Azerbaijan and Turkey

    Baku. Rashad Suleymanov ` APA. Member-churches of World Council of
    Churches going to recognize so-called Armenian `genocide' in 2015,
    said the chairman of the the International Association to Fight
    Unfounded Armenian Allegations (ASÄ°M-DER) Goksel Gulbey, APA reports
    quoting Turkish press.

    Gulbey said that for recognition of so-called Armenian `genocide', the
    world churches united against Turkey and are going to exert pressure
    on Turkey using religious: `For recognition of Armenian `genocide' and
    compensation claims at the anniversary of Armenian genocide, the WCC
    member-churches decided to hold international conference in Geneva
    with the participation of international organizations, lawyers and
    human right defenders, organize prayer ceremony to commemorate
    `victims' of the Armenian `genocide' in the Geneva Cathedral and
    invite WCC member-churches to prayer'.

    ASIMDER chairman also said that the churches in Azerbaijan and Turkey
    are members of the WCC and will join this conference and called on
    relevant state bodies of both countries to warn churches and religious
    leaders.




    From: A. Papazian
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