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MATTEO RENZI SUPPORTS POPE FRANCIS' ARMENIAN GENOCIDE STATEMENT
16:17, 17 April, 2015
YEREVAN, APRIL 17, ARMENPRESS. Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi
urges official Ankara to respect the European values. As reports
"Armenpress" citing La Stampa, at the course of the meeting with
the students in the Georgetown University held within the framework
of the visit to the United States, the Italian PM reflected on the
process of the EU expansion and the reforms for the next 20 years.
Among other things, Matteo Renzi called on Turkey to respect the
European values. "The Pope made a distinct address regarding the
events, which took place 100 years ago. In my opinion, the goal is
the European integration (this refers to everyone, not Turkey alone)
showing respect towards the common values."
Previously it was reported that in his sermon during the Divine
Liturgy dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
offered in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis called the mass killings
and massacres of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Turkey in 1915 a
Genocide. He said that the slaughter of the Armenians was the first
genocide of the 20th century.
Among other things, Pope Francis said the Armenian killings were
the first of three "massive and unprecedented" genocides that was
followed by the Holocaust and Stalinism. He said others had followed,
including in Cambodia, Rwanda, Burundi and Bosnia.
The Pope welcomed the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh
Sargsyan, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians His
Holiness Karekin II, the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia
Aram I and the Catholicos Patriarch of the House of Cilicia Nerses
Petros XIX, who attended the liturgy.
Pope Francis also honored the Armenian community at the start of
the Mass by pronouncing a 10th-century Armenian mystic, St. Gregory
of Narek, a doctor of the church. Only 35 people have been given the
title, which is reserved for those whose writings have greatly served
the universal church.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/802230/matteo-renzi-supports-pope-francis%E2%80%99-armenian-genocide-statement.html
16:17, 17 April, 2015
YEREVAN, APRIL 17, ARMENPRESS. Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi
urges official Ankara to respect the European values. As reports
"Armenpress" citing La Stampa, at the course of the meeting with
the students in the Georgetown University held within the framework
of the visit to the United States, the Italian PM reflected on the
process of the EU expansion and the reforms for the next 20 years.
Among other things, Matteo Renzi called on Turkey to respect the
European values. "The Pope made a distinct address regarding the
events, which took place 100 years ago. In my opinion, the goal is
the European integration (this refers to everyone, not Turkey alone)
showing respect towards the common values."
Previously it was reported that in his sermon during the Divine
Liturgy dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
offered in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis called the mass killings
and massacres of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Turkey in 1915 a
Genocide. He said that the slaughter of the Armenians was the first
genocide of the 20th century.
Among other things, Pope Francis said the Armenian killings were
the first of three "massive and unprecedented" genocides that was
followed by the Holocaust and Stalinism. He said others had followed,
including in Cambodia, Rwanda, Burundi and Bosnia.
The Pope welcomed the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh
Sargsyan, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians His
Holiness Karekin II, the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia
Aram I and the Catholicos Patriarch of the House of Cilicia Nerses
Petros XIX, who attended the liturgy.
Pope Francis also honored the Armenian community at the start of
the Mass by pronouncing a 10th-century Armenian mystic, St. Gregory
of Narek, a doctor of the church. Only 35 people have been given the
title, which is reserved for those whose writings have greatly served
the universal church.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/802230/matteo-renzi-supports-pope-francis%E2%80%99-armenian-genocide-statement.html