Posted on 03/23/2015 6:07:16 AM PDT by marshmallow
Vatican City, Mar 20, 2015 / 11:14 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Ahead of Pope Francis’ Mass commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, newly released historic documents confirm the Holy See’s broad commitment to helping the Armenian people at a time when few others would.
The Italian Jesuit-run magazine La Civiltà Cattolica stressed that newly published documents “prove how the Holy See, always informed about events, had not remained passive, but was strongly committed to face the issue” of the Armenian Genocide. “Benedict XV was the only ruler or religious leader to voice out a protest against the ‘massive crime’.”
The Armenian Genocide is considered to have begun April 24, 1915 with a massacre of Armenians in Istanbul. Over the next eight years, 1.5 million Armenians would be killed and millions more displaced.
However, such killings were perpetrated before, when much of the region was still under Ottoman rule.
For instance, a March 27, 1896 letter by the Franciscan Father Domenico Werson, who was serving as a missionary in Aleppo, recounted the massacre of Christians in Marasc and vicinities.
Most of the documents in the newly published series are from the archive of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches. They have been published in a series of four books by the Jesuit priest Father Georges-Henry Ruyssen. In advance of the series’ March 21 release date, the latest edition of La Civiltà Cattolica has published a summary.
The documents on the “Armenian Question” date from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century.
The collection of documents includes letters from Popes and to Ottoman sultans; documents and dispatches by Vatican Secretaries of State and prefects or secretaries of other Vatican dicasteries; documents and reports by the Apostolic delegates; and letters by Armenian patriarchs and bishops..........
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My grandmother came here with an Armenian lady who said she saw people impaled on sticks.
The Armenians in Turkey where VERY wealthy, and most of their wealth was property and gold (not paper money). They were professional people... merchants, lawyers, professors, etc. OF COURSE the Turks wanted them out... all their money and property was stolen from them, then they were murdered outright.
I realize there are moderates in Turkey, but any country that has a significant mohammedan following is unsafe not only for other religious groups, but the various sects of mohammedans themselves. Killing other mohammedans who wear their turbans wrapped differently is a sport pleasurable to them second only to killing Jews and Christians.
The Europeans would be insane to allow Turkey into the EU, and should refuse to let them have free entry into their countries (e.g., Germany).
It was just Islam expressing its peaceful nature.
Religion of Peace©, GW Bush
There is a particularly repulsive picture of a village where, after most of the other adults were murdered, all the Armenian girls were taken and nailed to crosses and left to die. That is all I need to know about the Religion of Peace.
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