Pope Francis is to celebrate Mass on 12 April 2015 to mark 100 years since the Armenian genocide.
"The Pope replied to the invitation from the Armenian Catholic Church a year ago through the Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX to celebrate a mass for the recognition of the Genocide," a pastor told Prensa Armenia on Sunday, following an announcement by the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires on Sunday.
During a meeting last year with the daughter of family who survived the genocide Pope Francis reportedly took her hand and said, "it was the first genocide of the twentieth century."
Turkey condemned the Pope's public statement as "absolutely unacceptable".
"The Pope replied to the invitation from the Armenian Catholic Church a year ago through the Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX to celebrate a mass for the recognition of the Genocide," a pastor told Prensa Armenia on Sunday, following an announcement by the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires on Sunday.
During a meeting last year with the daughter of family who survived the genocide Pope Francis reportedly took her hand and said, "it was the first genocide of the twentieth century."
Turkey condemned the Pope's public statement as "absolutely unacceptable".