Pope recognises Armenian genocide as first of 20th century

by admin
Jun 7, 2013
Pope Francis recognised the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey as “the first genocide of the twentieth century".

Meeting a delegation of genocide victims earlier this week, Pope Francis told a victim that “the first genocide of the 20th Century was that of the Armenians.”

In 2006, in his capacity as Cardinal and head of the Catholic Church in Buenos Aires, he had urged Turkey to recognise the killings as genocide as the “gravest crime of Ottoman Turkey against the Armenian people and the entire humanity.”

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