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    TURKEY: CHURCH TO MARK ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Independent Catholic News
    April 17 2015

    The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, based in Istanbul, will
    soon commemorate the 100th anniversary of the systematic massacres of
    the Armenian people which began on 24 April, 1915 with the roundup
    and killing of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, living in the
    metropolis on the Bosporus.

    A Mass presided over by the Patriarchal Vicar Aram Ateshian, will be
    celebrated in the church of the patriarchal Seat to commemorate the
    victims of mass murder, which on this occasion will be commemorated
    as saints.

    The Turkish press emphasizes that the celebrant will not use the word
    'genocide' to remember the suffering experienced "from all sides"
    in the tragic events of a hundred years ago.

    However, journalist and Turkish Armenian writer Etyen Mahcupyan,
    current first counselor of Turkish Premier Ahmet Davutoglu,
    acknowledged that the massacres of Armenians perpetrated in Anatolia in
    1915 under the direction of ideological Young Turks, may legitimately
    be defined as 'genocide'.

    "If one recognizes that those that occurred in Bosnia and Africa
    were genocide" - Mahcupyan said in an interview for an online site
    - ?it is impossible not to call genocide also what happened to the
    Armenians in 1915".

    He added that the use of such term for the Armenians has a "more
    psychological than political" meaning.

    Prime Minister Davutoglu, said that with his citation of the Armenian
    Genocide, the Pope has sided with the "face of evil" hostile to
    Turkey. While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in statements relaunched
    by Turkish media said that Turkey "acts generously" by not expelling
    100 thousand Armenian immigrants working in the country without being
    Turkish citizens, even if he "could do it".

    Meanwhile, Pope Tawadros II, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church,
    will travel to Yerevan on April 20 to take part in the most significant
    events planned to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian Genocide.

    Pope Tawadros' visit to Armenia will last about a week. Sources of
    the Coptic Patriarchate consulted by Agenzia Fides report that it
    will be the first participation of a Coptic Orthodox Patriarch in
    official commemorations of the Armenian Genocide.

    The commemoration of the centenary of the 'Big Evil' will culminate
    in the liturgy for the canonization of the victims of the Armenian
    Genocide, scheduled for April 23 in Yerevan, at the Patriarchal See
    of Echmiadzin Catholicosate, governed by Patriarch Karekin II. About
    40 Churches, ecclesial communities and ecumenical bodies, have already
    confirmed the presence of a delegation to the rite of canonization. On
    that same day, at 19.15 - the hour chosen to symbolically recall the
    year 1915 - all Armenian churches in the world, except those scattered
    on Turkish territory, will ring bells.

    Source: VIS

    http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=27216


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