Francis is marking the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire by celebrating a Mass in the Armenian Catholic rite in St. Peter's Basilica.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Sunday called the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks "the first genocide of the 20th century" and urged the international community to recognize it as such ...

“Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it,” he said at the start of a Mass in the Armenian Catholic rite honoring the centenary. In a ...

Before Sunday Mass at St. Gregory Armenian Catholic Church in Glendale, Father Antoine Noradounghian said he had “joy in his heart” after hearing the pope’s message. “What it means is we ...

Francis is marking the 100th anniversary of the killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire by celebrating a Mass in the Armenian Catholic rite in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Perhaps fewer than 4,000 members of the Armenian Catholic Church now live in Turkey ... Biden of the United States formally recognized the mass killings and expulsions of Armenians and other ...

Thousands of Armenian Christians have fled their ancestral ... the government of Armenia confirmed Monday. “The mass exodus has begun,” Siobhan Nash-Marshall, a U.S.-based human rights ...

Several thousand Armenian Christian pilgrims took boats to an ancient island cathedral in eastern Turkey on Sunday for the first Mass held in the church since it was abandoned during the mass ...