"YES I CAN" - Pope recognizes the mass killings of Armenians as ‘first genocide of the 20th Century’(HD).
Pope Francis described the mass killings of Armenians during World War I as “the first genocide of the twentieth century” during a meeting with a delegation led by Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics on June 3.The pope met with members of the delegation and when one of them said that she was a descendant of genocide victims, he replied: “The first genocide of the 20th Century was that of the Armenians,” reiterating his earlier recognition of the mass killings as ‘Armenian Genocide’ while he was the head of the Catholic Church in Buenos Aires as a cardinal.
In 2006, during events marking the 91st anniversary of the killings in Buenos Aires, he had urged Turkey to recognize “the genocide” as the “gravest crime of Ottoman Turkey against the Armenian people and the entire humanity.” Hmmm......Never underestimate a Jezuit.Read the full story here.
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