Pope Francis travels Friday for a three-day trip to Armenia, where he will visit the memorial to those who died in the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Turks, potentially straining relations between the Vatican and Ankara again.
The trip also comes just after a major outbreak of violence in the turbulent Caucasus region, when ethnic Armenian separatists fought Azerbaijani forces for four days in April over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The main question when Pope Francis goes to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on Saturday is whether he will echo his description last year of the …read more
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