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    VATICAN TO CO-PUBLISH A BOOK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    July 6, 2011

    PanARMENIAN.Net - The Vatican will co-publish a book with documents
    and information about the Armenian Genocide.

    According to Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, the papers are from the
    Vatican Secret Archives, and, to quote Monsignor Sergio Pagano, the
    clergyman who runs the archives, "they make me feel ashamed to be a
    man. Without faith, they'd make me see only darkness."

    Pagano's announcement was made during the presentation of the "Lux
    in Arcane" exhibition, which opens next February in Rome to show one
    of the world's most important collections of papers, with documents
    from the 8th century to the 20th century. Lined-up, they would cover
    85 kilometers.

    With regards to the Armenian Genocide, "when I read documents about
    the torture practices used by the Turks against the Armenians, I feel
    an irrepressible sense of pain and horror," Pagano said.

    According to the prefect, some of the papers describe how Turkish
    soldiers "bet and played dice to guess the sex of a child before
    stabbing him or her with a bayonet after extracting them out of
    the womb."

    During the presentation, Pagano, the prefect of the Vatican Secret
    Archives, also announced that within two or three years, the papers
    concerning World War II and the pontificate of Pius XII will be ready.

    The current pope will then be able to decide whether to release them
    to the public, as many expect, or not.

    The exhibition will also present less traumatic but equally relevant
    historic documents, including the Letter of the Peers of England to
    Clement VII on the matrimonial cause of Henry VIII (1530), the codex
    of the trial of Galileo Galilei (1616-1633), the Letter of Empress
    Helena of China on silk and the Letter of American Indians to Leo
    XIII on birch bark.

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