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ARCHBISHOP ZAKARIAN DENOUNCES GENOCIDE AT INTERFAITH SUMMIT
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 29, 2011 - 13:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Pope Benedict XVI hosted some 300 representatives
of world religions in Assisi, Italy on Thursday, Oct. 27, for an
interfaith summit on justice and peace, with distinct changes made
to the event first convened 25 years ago by Pope John Paul II.
The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council
of Churches, warned of the threat to peace posed by widespread youth
unemployment. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader
of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, lamented the "increased
marginalization of Christian communities in the Middle East."
Archbishop Norvan Zakarian, primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church
in France, denounced the "gravest of all crimes, genocide," though
he did not specifically mention the killing of more than 1 million
Armenians by Ottoman Turks following World War I.
For his part, Benedict denounced terrorism in the name of God, which
he called the "antithesis of religion," The Huffington Post reported.
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 29, 2011 - 13:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Pope Benedict XVI hosted some 300 representatives
of world religions in Assisi, Italy on Thursday, Oct. 27, for an
interfaith summit on justice and peace, with distinct changes made
to the event first convened 25 years ago by Pope John Paul II.
The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council
of Churches, warned of the threat to peace posed by widespread youth
unemployment. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader
of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, lamented the "increased
marginalization of Christian communities in the Middle East."
Archbishop Norvan Zakarian, primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church
in France, denounced the "gravest of all crimes, genocide," though
he did not specifically mention the killing of more than 1 million
Armenians by Ottoman Turks following World War I.
For his part, Benedict denounced terrorism in the name of God, which
he called the "antithesis of religion," The Huffington Post reported.