Pope Francis is set to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians by Turkey, a crime which he described as the “first genocide of the modern era”, reported Crux magazine.
The Pope is set to commemorate the lives lost in a service on April 12. More than 1 million Armenians were killed by the then Ottoman empire. The killings still cause great controversy in modern-day Turkey, with the Turkish government refusing to recognise it as a genocide.
Pope Francis' words to the daughter of an Armenian survivor two years ago, where he said “Yours was the first genocide of the 20th century,” was slammed by Turkey, who called it “completely unacceptable”.
See more from Crux here.
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