The
following excerpts are from AINA.org:
In
his Sunday sermon on April 12, "Pope Francis referred to the
1915 Turkish mass killings of Armenians as the 'first genocide of the
20th century.'"
This
papal declaration instantly flared into a diplomatic uproar. It
absolutely infuriated Turkey's Islamist President Tayyip Erdogan, who
"warned" the Pope against repeating his "mistaken"
statement.
There
was actually no mistake about it: The fact is, the Armenian
Genocide cost 1.5 million Armenian Christians their lives, along with
another million Assyrian and Greek believers.
And,
thanks to the Pope's pronouncement and Erdogan's outrage, the rest of
the world was effectively reminded of the approaching centennial of
that genocide, which will take place on April 24.
Read
more by clicking below:
Armenian, Assyrian, Greek Genocide: 100 Years of Remembrance
