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Legislative Assembly of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state adopted resolution declaring April 24 the Armenian Genocide recognition and remembrance day.
The measure has been introduced by the Assembly member Pedro Tobias.
Sao Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in Brazil Sao Paulo having the population of over 44 million is the most populous state in Brazil and the third most populous political unit of South America.
The spiritual leaders of the Armenian Christian churches will participate in the April church liturgy to be offered in the St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, reported La Stampa daily of Italy.
Accordingly, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I, and Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni of the Armenian Catholic Church, will attend this mass.
The climax of the Armenian Genocide centennial memorial church events will be the genocide victims’ collective canonization ceremony, which will take place on April 23 in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. Representatives from 38 Christian churches and organizations have already confirmed their attendance to this event.
And on the same day at 19:15 (7:15pm), which symbolizes the genocide in 1915, the bells will sound one hundred times in the Armenian Apostolic Churches throughout the world.
YEREVAN. – Although the predominantly Armenian-populated region of Kessab in northwestern Syria is now controlled by the Syrian government forces, the attacks on March 21 of last year may repeat.
Arab Studies specialist Armen Petrosyan stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Saturday.
Petrosyan stressed that Kessab is in the Latakia Governorate, which is populated by the followers of the religious affiliation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and therefore it has a target value.
“No one can give a guarantee that Kessab will not be attacked [again],” the Arab Studies specialist noted.
Petrosyan found it difficult to make predictions on a possible Turkey-sanctioned attack against Kessab on April 24, the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. He added, however, that Turkey would not want to create new problems for itself in the propaganda domain.
“Some local attacks are possible, but it is wrong to predict such large-scale attacks as happened last year on March 21,” the analyst said.
In his words, the main reason for the Arab Spring—i.e. the recent uprisings across the Middle East—was that an attempt was made to institute Western democratic values in the Middle East.