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SERZH SARGSYAN MEETS POPE FRANCIS
16:00, 19 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS. The President of the Republic of
Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who paid a visit to Vatican to take part in
the inauguration ceremony of Pope Francis, had a brief meeting with
the new leader of the Catholic Church. As reports "Armenpress" citing
nouvelles d'Armenie, Pope Francis had a conversation and received
congratulations from 34 world leaders including the President of
the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. Armenian believers attended
Pope's inauguration ceremony as well. They waved the Armenian flag
in Saint Peter's Square.
While introducing the footage of meeting of the President of the
Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan with the Pope of Rome BFM TV
stated that our country is among the most significant countries
having Christian values, which was the first in the world to adopt
Christianity as a state religion.
The inauguration ceremony of newly elected Pope of Rome Francis
launched in Vatican. Delegations from 132 countries of the world
along with 34 world leaders attended the inauguration ceremony. The
President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his French
counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault are among key European leaders, who
attended the ceremony, along with EU President Herman Van Rompuy and
European Commission head Jose Manuel Barosso, US Vice President Joe
Biden, a practicing Catholic, Argentine President Cristina Kirchner,
and many others. Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians
Karekin II headed the Armenian delegation at the inauguration ceremony
of newly elected Pope of Rome Francis. The Director of the Publishing
Department of the Mother See Archbishop Natan Hovhannisyan, the
Head of Inter-Church Relations Department of the Mother See of Holy
Etchmiadzin Bishop Hovakim Manukyan, and Fr. Anania Tzaturyan are
included in the delegation. Catholicos Patriarch of Cilicia of the
Armenian Catholics Nerses Bedros XIX also attended the inauguration.
On Wednesday, after what is viewed as a short conclave, white smoke
from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel heralded that a gathering of
Catholic cardinals picked a new pope, choosing the first pontiff from
Americas to lead the Roman Catholic Church.
The 76-year-old pope will be called Francis, the 266th pontiff of the
Roman Catholic Church and the first member of the Jesuit order to lead
the church and the first none-European pope in more than 1,200 years.
"Pray for me, and we'll see each other soon," the pope told the crowd
of more than 100,000 gathered at St. Peter's Square.
Newly-elected Pope Francis urged Turkey to unconditionally recognize
the Armenian Genocide seven years ago. During events marking the 91st
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Buenos Aires, then Archbishop
of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio urged Turkey to recognize the
Genocide as the "gravest crime of Ottoman Turkey against the Armenian
people and the entire humanity."
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/712014/serzh-sargsyan-meets-pope-francis.html
16:00, 19 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS. The President of the Republic of
Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who paid a visit to Vatican to take part in
the inauguration ceremony of Pope Francis, had a brief meeting with
the new leader of the Catholic Church. As reports "Armenpress" citing
nouvelles d'Armenie, Pope Francis had a conversation and received
congratulations from 34 world leaders including the President of
the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. Armenian believers attended
Pope's inauguration ceremony as well. They waved the Armenian flag
in Saint Peter's Square.
While introducing the footage of meeting of the President of the
Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan with the Pope of Rome BFM TV
stated that our country is among the most significant countries
having Christian values, which was the first in the world to adopt
Christianity as a state religion.
The inauguration ceremony of newly elected Pope of Rome Francis
launched in Vatican. Delegations from 132 countries of the world
along with 34 world leaders attended the inauguration ceremony. The
President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his French
counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault are among key European leaders, who
attended the ceremony, along with EU President Herman Van Rompuy and
European Commission head Jose Manuel Barosso, US Vice President Joe
Biden, a practicing Catholic, Argentine President Cristina Kirchner,
and many others. Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians
Karekin II headed the Armenian delegation at the inauguration ceremony
of newly elected Pope of Rome Francis. The Director of the Publishing
Department of the Mother See Archbishop Natan Hovhannisyan, the
Head of Inter-Church Relations Department of the Mother See of Holy
Etchmiadzin Bishop Hovakim Manukyan, and Fr. Anania Tzaturyan are
included in the delegation. Catholicos Patriarch of Cilicia of the
Armenian Catholics Nerses Bedros XIX also attended the inauguration.
On Wednesday, after what is viewed as a short conclave, white smoke
from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel heralded that a gathering of
Catholic cardinals picked a new pope, choosing the first pontiff from
Americas to lead the Roman Catholic Church.
The 76-year-old pope will be called Francis, the 266th pontiff of the
Roman Catholic Church and the first member of the Jesuit order to lead
the church and the first none-European pope in more than 1,200 years.
"Pray for me, and we'll see each other soon," the pope told the crowd
of more than 100,000 gathered at St. Peter's Square.
Newly-elected Pope Francis urged Turkey to unconditionally recognize
the Armenian Genocide seven years ago. During events marking the 91st
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Buenos Aires, then Archbishop
of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio urged Turkey to recognize the
Genocide as the "gravest crime of Ottoman Turkey against the Armenian
people and the entire humanity."
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/712014/serzh-sargsyan-meets-pope-francis.html