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Pope Francis Ceremonies will be held in 1915 to commemorate the victims of the Vatican

January 29, 2015 by administrator

Pope Francis at the Vatican on April 12, 1915 will be held in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide was confirmed to be directed liturgy itself.

Pope Francis the next three months covering program were announced. In a statement from the Vatican, the spiritual leader of February, March and announced the program will participate in the rituals and religious ceremonies in April.

In the last quarter of Strasbourg, Turkey, Sri Lanka and the Pope came up with the outside of his trip to the Philippines, was seen next three months will focus its activities in the Vatican. According to the schedule announced by the Vatican, the Pope appoints 14 new cardinals in February, will manage the inauguration of the new cardinals.

Italy in March and near the historic city of Naples, which will make a visit to Pompeii Pope Francis, the end of March, beginning of April to meet the Easter rituals.

Pope’s Easter mass, as well as to manage the program are also available in person at a ceremony to be held in April with the Armenians on April 12. In the Vatican’s statement on the content of the liturgy will be held in St Peter’s Basilica on 12 April not shared any other details. However, Agos, the Bishop of Milan said rites according to the information we obtain from sources close to the 1915 Armenian Genocide victims will be held in memory.

Pope Francis, the Pope continued during the Buenos Aires purple before selecting which also is known for making statements about the Armenian Genocide. The first description of the liturgical will be held on April 12 at the Vatican in current Buenos Aires Cardinal came from Marion Police. Cardinal Police last year on August 17 in observance of the Armenian Catholic Church, Pope Francis announced in 2015 to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide will hold ceremonies. However, the Vatican had maintained its silence on this issue.

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Unpublished documents on the Armenian Genocide soon be published by the Vatican

January 22, 2015 by administrator

Before the hundredth commemoration of Armenian Genocide Vatican will publish a book documented from its secret archives. The announcement was made at the opening of the exhibition “Lux Arcana”. In its archives, the Vatican has a number of documents that reflect the genocidal done on the Armenian people. These will be announced shortly co-published with the Vatican Archives.

Reportedly, the official said Secret Archives, Monsignor Sergio Pagano, describe “in detail” the “torture procedures used the Turks against the Armenians.” For example, he said, “there is evidence of how the soldiers of the Sublime Porte were willing to bet” on the sex of the fetus in the womb of pregnant women before cutting them into quarters and with the same knife they killing babies. “

These episodes, said the Archivist of the Vatican, “make me ashamed to be a man, and if it were not for faith I would see only darkness.”

The Catholic Church is still waiting for a recognition of the genocide by the Turkish state, although recently some progress has been made. For example, it has become easier to make pilgrimages to the church of Tarsus, the birthplace of St. Paul.

It is likely that the publication of these documents will revive tensions between the Holy See and Turkey. But that is the price that the truth will come out in the open to the chagrin of Holocaust deniers.

Thursday, January 22, 2015,
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France: The Nativity festival calendar from Nice Armenian Church and living in the Vatican in April 2015

December 28, 2014 by administrator

Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Apostolic Church of the Alpes-Maritimes, Var and Monaco organizes a trip to the heart of the Vatican on Saturday, April 11 to 13, 2015 on the occasion of the 100th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. On this occasion, the Divine Liturgy will be celebrated in the Armenian rite in the presence of Pope Francis in the Basilica of St. Peter’s. Application deadline is January 30, 2015. Space is limited. Participation: € 230 with a deposit at registration of 100 €. Information: 06 10 10 32 65; stgregoire13@yahoo.fr

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No alternative to int’l censure of Armenian Genocide: President

September 19, 2014 by administrator

The 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire will be properly accessed, there being no other alternative, President Serzh Sargsyan stressed during the opening of the photo exhibition “A Fable of the East: Challenges Facing Christianity in the New Millennium” at Vittoriano Museum Complex in Rome.

“In a few months we’ll be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a crime against humanity, which, unfortunately, has not been properly characterized by now. However, there is simply no alternative: sooner or later it will be given a complete, comprehensive and unequivocal characterization.

The truth is that we can’t ensure a peaceful and safe future without condemning the crimes of the past,” the President said.

“Failing to give a clear and unambiguous characterization of genocides, dissemination of xenophobic sentiments, barbaric annihilation of cultural values and all other atrocities of such kind in due time results in the repetition of all that. I can give you a lot of examples.

I will give you only one of them. Some time ago we saw Jugha’s medieval Armenian cross-stones, the prominent monuments of the Armenian people’s identity, culture and belief, deliberately exterminated. The extermination of Jugha’s century-old cemetery with its thousands of finely-designed and unique cross-stones dating from the 9th to 16th centuries in the last two decades is the brutal manifestation of the policy aimed at complete extermination of the Christian-Armenian cultural heritage across the entire territory of Nakhijevan and Azerbaijan, which has not yet properly characterized by the international community. The autrocity might lead thousands to believe that age-old cultural monuments of an entire people can be wrecked to the ground without impunity. Of course, very many of them did so. In that case why not repeat such an easily implemented act in Iraq, Syria and in some other place?

One thing is certain: There is not a moment to lose if we are to inculcate tolerance, including religious tolerance. We do not have a right to remain irresolute,” the Armenian leader stressed.

Vatican Insider-ի անդրադարձը նախագահ Սերժ Սարգսյանի` Վատիկան կատարած պաշտոնական այցին. Panorama.am

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Vatican: Pope receives President of Iraqi Kurdistan Barzani

June 7, 2014 by administrator

Pope Francis received Friday Massoud Barzani, president of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan province where there is a very ancient Christian community that has grown with the influx of refugees from the rest of Iraq and Syria, said the Vatican .

While violence peaked in Iraq, more than 4,000 died in violence since the beginning of the year, this autonomous region, after having long been an area of conflict at the time of Saddam Hussein, has become an area safer in a particularly difficult environment.

This is the first time that the Pope received Barzani who is the head of the autonomous region since 2005.

The province of Kurdistan is home to over 200,000 Syrian refugees, including many Kurds but also Christians.

These would be more in the region of 30,000. Among them also Christians who have left Baghdad and other cities further south to find a security, tolerance and greater freedom.

According to Bishop Rabban Al Qas, bishop of Amadiyah-Zahko interviewed by Vatican Radio, he breathes an air of “freedom” in the region, even if it “is not a paradise,” this freedom attracting private entrepreneurs and allowing some economic development.

Pope Francis meets Catholicos Aram I in Vatican

June 5, 2014 by administrator

June 5, 2014 – 16:01 AMT

Pope Francis on Thursday, June 5, met with Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia. The two men also prayed together in the Redemptoris Mater chapel in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican Radio reported.

His Holiness Aram I was also scheduled to visit the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity and other dicasteries of the Roman Curia during his 3-day visit to Rome.

“One month ago, I had the pleasure of receiving His Holiness Catholicos Karekin II. Today I have the joy of welcoming Your Holiness, the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia. Together with you, I give thanks to the Lord for the continued growth of fraternal relations between us. I consider it a true gift from God that we can share this moment of encounter and common prayer,” Pope Francis said.

“Your Holiness’s commitment to the cause of Christian unity is known to all. You have been especially active in the World Council of Churches and you continue to be most supportive of the Middle East Council of Churches, which plays such an important role in assisting the Christian communities of that region as they face numerous difficulties,” he noted.

“Your Holiness represents a part of the Christian world that is irrevocably marked by a history of trials and sufferings courageously accepted for the love of God. The Armenian Apostolic Church has had to become a pilgrim people; it has experienced in a singular way what it means to journey towards the Kingdom of God. The history of emigration, persecutions and the martyrdom experienced by so many of the faithful has inflicted deep wounds on the hearts of all Armenians,” Pope emphasized.

Source: PanARMENIAN.Net

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Vatican, François Armenian Patriarch: the blood of martyrs must unite Christians

May 9, 2014 by administrator

Pope Francis received Thursday Patriarch Karekin II of Armenians, calling never forget the blood of the Christian Armenians in the last century and stressing that the sacrifice of the martyrs should strengthen unity among their different communities.

The Pope made indirect reference to the great massacres of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century: “The number of disciples who shed their blood for Christ in the tragedies of the last century is certainly superior to that of the martyrs of the first centuries “of the Church.

“In this martyrology, children of the Armenian nation has a place of honor,” he noted, before the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church ancient seven million followers scattered between Armenia and the Diaspora, especially in North America.

The testimony of the Armenians “should not be forgotten. Commme in the ancient Church, the blood of martyrs is the seed of new Christians, just as today, the blood of many Christians became seed of unity “between the churches, he has said.

“Ecumenism of suffering and martyrdom is a powerful pounding the road of reconciliation between churches exhortation. We feel the need to travel this road of brotherhood. ”

This notion of “ecumenism of martyrdom” came up several times in the mouth of the Pope or senior church leaders, especially about the Syrian tragedy or terrorist actions of Boko Haram in Nigeria. Christians of different denominations have been killed or kidnapped by Islamist groups in these countries.

The call for the unity of the churches, both Catholic and Orthodox, often divided by old quarrels, should be a strong point of the message of Francis, when he will visit Jordan, Palestine and Israel from 24 to 26 May.

Catholicos, already present at the Mass inaugurating the pontificate of Francis in March 2013, then had a time of ecumenical prayer with the Pope, in a chapel in the Vatican.

In 1999, Karekin was elected 132nd Patriarch of the Armenians, and had several meetings with the recent popes.

Arrived Wednesday for a stay of several days in Rome before heading to the United States, he had a program meeting the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, and an interview with Pope Benedict XVI Emeritus.

AFP

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE TO FRANCIS Karekin II SUPREME PATRIARCH AND CATHOLICOS OF ALL WITH HIS ENTOURAGE Armenians

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Your Holiness, Dear Brothers in Christ,

I gladly offer a MOST heartfelt welcome to you and to the distinguished delegation Accompanying you. Through Your Holiness, I extend aussi respectful and affectionate greetings to the members of the family Catholicate and to all Armenians around the world. It is a Particular thanks to greet you here so close to the tomb of the Apostle Peter and to share this moment of prayer and fraternity.

With you, I praise the Lord, Because in recent years Relations Between the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Church of Rome Have Been Strengthened, thanks to the events All which are so dear to our memory. Here I recall the visit of my sainted predecessor to Armenia in 2001, and the welcome presence of Your Holiness in the Vatican for the official visit Benedict XVI toPope in 2008 and for the inauguration of my ministry as Bishop of Rome last year.

Here I wish to recall Reviews another occasion full of meaning in All which Your Holiness participated: the commemoration of the Witnesses to the faith of the twentieth century, Which Took Place in the context of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 In truth, the number of. Have you shed Their Blood disciples for Christ falling on the tragic events of the last century is Certainly Greater Than That of the martyrs of the first centuries, and in this martyrology the children of the Armenian nation-have a place of honor. The mystery of the Cross, to the precious memory of your people and Depicted in the splendid stone crosses All which adorn every corner of your land, has-beens Lived as a Direct participation in the chalice of the Passion by So Many of your people. Their witness, at once tragic and great, must not be forgotten.

Your Holiness, dear Brothers, the Sufferings Endured by Christians in contention last Decades-have made a unique and invaluable contribution to the unity of Christ’s disciples. As in the ancient Church, the blood of the martyrs Became the seed of new Christians. So too in our time the blood of innumerable Christians HAS Become a seed of unity. The ecumenism of suffering and of the martyrdom of blood are A Powerful summons to walk along the path of reconciliation Between the Churches, by courageously and decisively Abandoning Ourselves to the working of the Holy Spirit. We feel the duty to follow this path fraternal aussi out of the debt of gratitude we owe to the suffering so; many of our brothers and sisters, All which is salvific Because it is united to the Passion of Christ.

In this regard, I wish to thank Your Holiness for the effective medium Given to ecumenical dialogue, and in Particular to the work of the commission for theological dialogue attached Between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and for the skillful theological contributions by offert Representatives of the Catholicate of All Armenians.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation, Have you consoles us in all our affliction, so Abebooks web console May be ble to Those Who Are in Any Way afflicted with the consolation All which we are with Ourselves consoled by God “(2 Corinthians 1: 3-4). Full of trust, May we walk the path That lies ahead of us, sustained by so great a cloud of Witnesses (cf. Heb 12:1), and implore the Father for the unity All which Christ Prayed for himself at the Last Supper (cf. . Jn 5:21 p.m.).

Let us pray for each other: may the Holy Spirit enlighten us and lead us to That Day, so Greatly Desired, All which we can share in the Eucharistic table. We praise God in the words of St. Gregory of Narek, “Accept the song of blessing from our lips and deign to grant to this Church the gifts and graces of Zion and of Bethlehem, so can be made on the Abebooks web worthy to Participate in salvation” . May the all-holy Mother of God intercede for the Armenian people now and always.

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