The pope condemned as “genocide” the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Turks, a move on the first day of a trip here that could strain relations between Turkey and the Vatican again.
Departing from his prepared remarks Friday in the presidential palace, Pope Francis condemned “that tragedy, that genocide” as “the first of a deplorable series of catastrophes of the past century.”
He lamented that the “great powers looked away” from the Armenian massacres and later atrocities “made possible by twisted racial, ideological or religious aims.”
The issue of whether the pope would echo his 2015 description of the killing of Armenians …read more
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