GYUMRI and YEREVAN, ARMENIA – In a day filled up with powerful ecumenical and you will political messages, Pope Francis Monday entitled into Christians so you can “abandon rigorous views” in the search for unity among all of their more communions and needed the fresh broad community remember this new classes of Ottoman-era killings of some 1.5 million Armenians.
The pontiff began the second day’s his Saturday-Sunday stop by at the united states that have an image-rich trip to the newest Armenian genocide memorial within the Yerevan, the administrative centre, alongside Catholicos Karekin II, your mind of China Orthodox Armenian Apostolic church.
Francis and you may Karekin placed an excellent wreath ahead of an eternal fire at the the middle of the latest art gallery cutting-edge, an enthusiastic evocative structure of twelve numerous-tale extreme slabs set up in the a circle, before leading a good solemn and you will haunting mutual ecumenical prayer together. 続きを読む