Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

ANCA statement on Pope Francis reaffirmation of the Armenian Genocid

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • ANCA statement on Pope Francis reaffirmation of the Armenian Genocid

    ANCA statement on Pope Francis reaffirmation of the Armenian Genocide

    20:01, 12 Apr 2015
    Siranush Ghazanchyan

    Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram
    Hamparian offered the following comment regarding Pope Francis
    statement reaffirming the Armenian Genocide, made earlier today during
    an unprecedented Vatican mass commemorating the 100th anniversary of
    that crime.

    "Turkey underestimates, at its own risk, the power of our worldwide
    movement - a profoundly moral movement inspired by truth and driven by
    our shared hope for a fair and enduring peace based on a just
    international resolution of the Armenian Genocide," stated Hamparian.

    In remarks delivered at the opening of the commemorative mass, Pope
    Francis noted, "In the past century our human family has lived through
    three massive and unprecedented tragedies. The first, which is widely
    considered "the first genocide of the twentieth century", struck your
    own Armenian people, the first Christian nation, as well as Catholic
    and Orthodox Syrians, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Greeks. Bishops and
    priests, religious, women and men, the elderly and even defenceless
    children and the infirm were murdered."

    Pope Francis went on to state that, "It is necessary, and indeed a
    duty, to honour their memory, for whenever memory fades, it means that
    evil allows wounds to fester. Concealing or denying evil is like
    allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it!"

    At the end of the mass, His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great
    House of Cilicia, thanked Pope Francis for his reaffirmation of truth,
    and stated, "International law spells out clearly that condemnation,
    recognition and reparation of a genocide are closely interconnected."
    He went on to note that the Armenian cause is a cause of justice, and
    that justice is a gift of God. "Therefore, the violation of justice is
    a sin against God."

    In his remarks, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and
    Catholicos of All Armenians, stated "Our ancient people were uprooted
    from their cradle and historic homeland and scattered around the
    world. Our centuries-old Christian heritage was torn down, destroyed
    and seized. However, nothing -- neither suffering, nor persecution or
    even death -- forced our people to renounce their sacred faith."


    http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/04/12/anca-statement-on-pope-francis-reaffirmation-of-the-armenian-genocide/




    From: A. Papazian
Working...
X