Posts Tagged ‘Armenian Apostolic Church’

The religious meaning of the Pope’s ‘genocide’ reference

Friday, April 24th, 2015

When Pope Francis described the killing of more than a million Armenians a century ago as “the first genocide of the 20th century,” he was widely regarded as making a political statement. Certainly that was the view of Turkey, which recalled its ambassador to the Vatican and expressed its “great disappointment and sadness” over the pope’s Read more