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Vatican releases stamp showing Pope at Armenian Genocide memorial

November 27, 2017 By administrator

The Vatican has released colorful stamp series celebrating Pope’s trips in 2016, among them visits to Mexico, Poland, Greece, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Sweden.

The stamp dedicated to Armenia shows Pope against the background of Tsitsernakaberd – the memorial complex honoring the victims of the Armenian Genocide. The official website of the Vatican noted that the author of the stamp is Daniela Longo.

 

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: Genocide, Pope, Stamp, Vatican

Armenian Genocide documents from Vatican archives arrive at AGMI

September 20, 2017 By administrator

The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan has received documents from the secret archives of the Vatican about the events of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire.

Part of the valuable documents acquired with the help of Italian entrepreneur of Armenian origin Artur Asatryan, were transferred to the museum, AGMI said in a statement.

Manana Hakobyan from the TV show “Of Armenian origin” transferred the documents to the Institute and said that at the moment only a part of the documents have been digitized.

Also, Armenia’s ambassador to the Vatican Mikayel Minasyan has also facilitated the transfer of the documents.

Some three dozen countries, hundreds of local government bodies and international organizations have so far recognized the killings of 1.5 million Armenian in the Ottoman Empire as genocide. Turkey denies to this day.

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Armenian, documents, Genocide, Vatican

Pope Francis and President Trump meet despite deep divide

May 24, 2017 By administrator

Trump and popeThe US president and the head of the Catholic Church have clashed on a number of key issues. But both men emerged smiling from their private audience, with the president saying he “wouldn’t forget” Pope Francis’ words.

Despite some rather public disagreements on issues ranging from economics to the environment to immigration, US President Donald Trump met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday. Although he has previously criticized some of Trump’s policies as “not Christian,” the pontiff said he would approach the meeting, squeezed into his schedule at the last minute, with an open mind.

“Thank you so much,” Trump could be heard saying before they went into their private audience. “It is such an honor to be here.”

Since Trump announced his presidential campaign, the two men have differed publicly on a number of topics. Pope Francis was a vocal critic of Trump’s plan to bar refugees from coming to the US and to build a wall on the border with Mexico. The pontiff called these policies “not Christian,” and said the job of leaders was to build bridges, not walls. The then-presidential candidate fired back that it was “disgraceful” for Francis to question his faith.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Pope Francis, Trump, Vatican

Armenian Genocide movie ‘The Promise’ screens at Vatican

April 5, 2017 By administrator

Variety – “The Promise,” a movie about the Armenian genocide, screened at the Vatican on Tuesday with director Terry George, producer Eric Esrailian and some talent in attendance, in a clear sign of Catholic Church support ahead of the film’s upcoming U.S. release.

The big-budget epic was bankrolled by late billionaire Kirk Kerkorian. Its lead actors, Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac, did not make the trek to Vatican City, but the intimate event held for Vatican officials in the 50-seat Vatican Cinematheque’s screening room was attended by stars Shohreh Aghdashloo and James Cromwell and by singer-songwriter Chris Cornell, who composed the theme song.

The Vatican screening comes after Pope Francis last year made his first visit to Armenia. During the visit, he used the term “genocide” to describe the slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I.

The pope’s remark sparked an angry reaction by the Turkish government, which strongly denies that a genocide occurred, arguing that it was wartime and many Turks were killed as well and insisting there was never a systematic plan to execute Armenians.

Esrailian, head of Survival Pictures, which he set up with Kerkorian to produce “The Promise,” traveled to Armenia for the papal visit.

“When he [Pope Francis] mentioned the word ‘genocide’ once in the big Mass, you could hear a kind of collective gasp and people getting tearful because he spoke really as a world leader,” Esrailian recalled. He noted that Armenia was the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion, “so it has a special place in Catholicism.”

“When there was awareness [within the Vatican] that a major film was being made, we were contacted to screen the movie. So we sent a private link to be viewed,” he said.

“The Promise,” which world-premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last September, will go on wide release in the U.S. on 2,000 screens via Open Road Films on April 21.

The roughly $100-million film is considered a breakthrough after several attempts to make a Hollywood film about the Armenian genocide failed during past decades because of what director Terry George calls a “denialist lobby,” which these days is efficiently run by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he claims.

George said there was a denialist propaganda machine behind “The Ottoman Lieutenant,” a film with strikingly similar elements to “The Promise,” but which allegedly takes the side of the denialists. “Ottoman Lieutenant” went on release via New York-based Paladin on roughly 200 screens in the U.S. in March.

“It’s an Erdogan propaganda film released as a feature film in the United States, remarkably, just ahead of us,” the director said. “The Ottoman Lieutenant,” which stars Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley, was produced by a Turkish company called Eastern Sunrise Films.

Variety critic Dennis Harvey, in his review of “The Ottoman Lieutenant,” wrote that, “[in] this primarily Turkish-funded production, the historical, political, ethnic and other intricacies — not to mention that perpetual elephant in the room, the Armenian Genocide, which commenced in 1915 — are glossed over in favor of a generalized ‘Whattaya gonna do… war is bad’ aura that implies conscience without actually saying anything.”

“The Promise” faces its own challenges, including tepid reviews. Variety critic Peter Debruge called it “a sloggy melodrama in which the tragedy of a people is forced to take a back seat to a not especially compelling love triangle.”

“The Promise” centers on a love story involving a medical student (Isaac), a journalist (Bale), and the Armenian woman (Charlotte Le Bon) who steals their hearts. All three find themselves grappling with the Ottomans’ decision to begin rounding up and persecuting Armenians.

“The construct of the love triangle is clearly there for people who are unaware of the genocide or not particularly that interested in it,” said George. “It’s a big, old-fashioned love story. I think we’ve created a classic form of story, and hopefully women in particular will be entertained by it,” the director added.

As part of its marketing strategy, Survival Pictures has launched a #KeepThePromise social impact campaign for which it has already recruited Elton John, Barbara Streisand, Andre Agassi, Cher, Sylvester Stallone, among others, for an anti-genocide call to action connected to the film which has a strong philanthropic aspect. Survival Pictures’ cut of the box office will go to charities including The Sentry, the non-profit group co-founded by George Clooney and activist and author John Prendergast.

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: armenian genocide, movie, The Promise, Vatican

Vatican debunks Turkey’s ‘crusader pope’ accusations in Armenia genocide row

June 26, 2016 By administrator

Vatican debunks cruaderThe Vatican has defended the pope’s stand on the Armenian genocide as an ideology aimed at bringing peace and reconciliation, not war, and rebuking Ankara’s vocal criticism of Francis’ alleged “crusader” mentality.
Repeated references to the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Turks made by Pope Francis during his three-day visit to Armenia, has sparked condemnation by Turkish officials.

After the pontiff made his first statement on the topic as soon as he arrived in Yerevan on Friday, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli called Francis’ statements “greatly unfortunate” which Ankara does not “take seriously.”

“The goal is to squeeze Turkey in the corner,” said Canikli on Saturday, accusing Francis of siding with European Union values. “It is, unfortunately, possible to see all the reflections and traces of crusader mentality in the actions of the papacy and the pope.”

Turkey denies orchestrating the genocide of over 1 million Armenians that were living in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Ankara maintains that Armenians killed a century ago were victims of World War I.

On Sunday, the director of the Vatican Press Office has strongly dismissed Turkish accusations of a ‘Crusades’ mentality when the pope used the word ‘genocide’ to describe the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians a century ago.

Father Federico Lombardi said that neither Francis’ statements nor his actions ever suggested a Crusades-like mentality of the pontiff. The focus of Francis, according to Vatican is to resurrect the “spirit of dialogue.”

“The pope is on no crusade,” Lombardi said. “He is not trying to organize wars or build walls but he wants to build bridges… he has said no words against the Turkish people,” Vatican Radio reported.

Despite steaming criticism from Turkey, the Pope has once again made a reference to the tragic events of last century when he remembered the “victims of hatred” for the third consecutive day, as he concluded his tour of Armenia.

“May the Armenian Church walk in peace and may the communion between us be complete,” Francis said at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy in the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Etchmiadzin. “Let us respond to the appeal of the saints, let us listen to the voices of the humble and poor, of the many victims of hatred who suffered and gave their lives for the faith.

“Let us pay heed to the younger generation, who seek a future free of past divisions…may there be joined the light of the love that forgives and reconciles,” Francis added.

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: debunks, Turkey's, Vatican, ‘crusader

VATICAN Pope Francis expected in Armenia in late June

March 19, 2016 By administrator

arton123420-480x340Vatican City, (AFP) -The Pope Francis should go for the first time in Armenia, a country with ancient Christian traditions, in the second half of June, said Friday the Press Office of the Holy See.

“A pope’s visit to Armenia is under consideration, probably during the second half of June,” he told reporters spokesman for the Holy See, Father Federico Lombardi. He was reacting to the announcement of a site close to the Vatican, “he sismógrafo”, in which Jorge Bergoglio will visit Armenia from 22 to 26 June The dates are not yet finalized, has insisted the spokesman, explaining that the head of papal trips, the Colombian Bishop Mauricio Rueda Beltz, still had to get there before the pope approves the final program.

April 12, 2015, in the most solemn part of the St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope had used the term “genocide” to refer to the massacre of Armenians a century ago during the Ottoman Empire. This had led to a deterioration of diplomatic relations with Turkey, where the Argentine pontiff had yet visited late November 2014.

Fifteen years after the visit by John Paul II in 2001 in Armenia, Francis will visit again a country of the periphery of Europe where Catholics are a minority, after Albania and Bosnia. An autocephalous Orthodox Church has a large majority in this country was the first to adopt Christianity as a state religion in 301.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Armenia, expected, Pope Francis, Vatican

VATICAN: Pope Francis recalls the Christians with Iraqi Prime Minister

February 11, 2016 By administrator

arton121986-480x319Pope Francis received Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, with whom he discussed the importance of maintaining the Christians and other minorities in the country, announced the Vatican.

“After discussing their good relations, the parties focused on the Church’s life and the situation of Christians like other minorities in Iraq, emphasizing the importance of their presence and the need to protect their rights” announced a short statement from the Holy See. “It was then question of the place of interreligious dialogue in society and the responsibility of religious communities in spreading tolerance and civil peace,” added the Vatican.

Mr. Abadi also met with Secretary of State of the Vatican, Monsignor Pietro Parolin and the two men “stressed the importance of the reconciliation process in progress” in Iraq and raised the thorny humanitarian issue throughout the region.

The Argentine pontiff, who had received late January Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in urging him to work for peace in the Middle East, had on Sunday launched a heartfelt appeal for the tens of thousands of civilians fleeing fighting in northern Syria .

Thursday, February 11, 2016,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Christians, Iraq, PM, Pope Francis, Vatican

Turkey shamefully to send ambassador back to Vatican after POPE recognized Armenian Genocide

February 4, 2016 By administrator

239725Paçacı was recalled last April to Ankara over Pope Francis’ comments describing the killings of Armenians by the Ottomans a century ago as “genocide.”

On April 12, 2015, Pope Francis marked the 100th anniversary of the killings of Armenians during World War I by calling it “the first genocide of the 20th century,” a pronouncement that drew ire from the Turkish government.

Turkey summoned the Vatican’s ambassador in Ankara on the same day over the pope’s comments.

Turkey, a majority of whose population is Muslim, accepts that many Christian Armenians died in clashes with Ottoman soldiers beginning in 1915, when Armenia was part of the empire ruled from İstanbul, but denies hundreds of thousands were killed and that this amounted to genocide.

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Armenian, Genocide, Turkey, Vatican

Pope urges Iran to act for peace in Middle East.

January 26, 2016 By administrator

ppp.thumbPope Francis on Jan. 26 urged Iran to back peace efforts in the Middle East as the Islamic Republic’s emergence from international isolation took a significant step forward with President Hassan Rouhani’s first visit to the Vatican.

Fresh from securing the lifting of international sanctions imposed over Iran’s nuclear program, Rouhani spent 40 minutes at the Vatican talking privately to Pope Francis, a strong backer of the deal with Tehran.

In a statement afterwards, the Vatican said Francis had urged the Iranian leader to use Iran’s important role to promote, together with other countries, “adequate political solutions” to the problems afflicting the region and to help combat terrorism and arms trafficking.

“I thank you for your visit and I hope for peace,” Francis told his guest at the end of their meeting, when journalists were briefly allowed to listen in.

A smiling Rouhani, who presented the pope with a hand-made carpet from the ancient city of Qom, replied with one of Francis’s catchphrases.

“I ask you to pray for me,” he said. “It was a pleasure to meet you and I wish you well in your work.”

In return for his gift, Rouhani was given a medal depicting St Martin cutting his cloak in half to give to a poorly clothed beggar.

The Iranian leader also went away with English and Arabic versions of Francis’s extended essay on the environmental challenges faced by the world. “Laudato Si” (Praise Be) has not been translated into Farsi.

It was the first official visit to the Vatican by an Iranian president since Mohammad Khatami was hosted by John Paul II in 1999. Khatami also attended the Polish pope’s funeral in 2005.

Rouhani is on a five-day trip to Italy and France looking to drum up trade and investment to modernize Iran’s economy, partly by pitching the country as a beacon of stability in a conflict-wracked region.

Speaking to an audience of Italian and Iranian business leaders earlier in the day, Rouhani also portrayed Iran as the ideal base for companies seeking a foothold in a region of 300 million people, reassuring would-be investors their contracts would be honored.

“Iran is the safest, the most stable country in the entire region,” Rouhani said. “Everyone understood that the nuclear negotiations represented a win-win situation for both sides.

“Now we have created the conditions for investment and for the transfer of know-how. There has to be an advantage for both sides: we invite you to invest and we will provide stability and ensure that you can make adequate returns.”

He emphasized that all sections of Iran’s often-divided political class, right up to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were firmly behind the post-sanctions drive to secure the trade and investment needed to create new roads, rail links, airports and other infrastructure.

Rouhani outlined a vision of Iran being transformed into a hub for intra-regional economic development, linking the Middle East to South and Central Asia and even the Western fringes of China.

“Do not regard us as just one country but as a country at the center of a much larger market,” Rouhani said, citing the example of the port of Chabahar on Iran’s southern coast.

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Hassan Rouhani’s, Vatican, visit

Book (Armenian Genocide) of the German historian Michael Hasemann uses the secret archives of the Vatican

October 15, 2015 By administrator

arton117485-400x300The scientific and German historian Michael Hasemann just published in Germany the book “an den Armeniern Völkermord” (Armenian Genocide) whose essential elements is based on the revelation of the Vatican secret archives. During 5 years, the German historian searched the documents relating to the genocide of Armenians in the Vatican archives are drawing some 3000 pages of documents that can shed new light on the genocide. Historians had once got hold of the documents of the German archives, USA, Italy, Austria, but the Vatican archives remained closed to researchers.

It proves especially from those documents that the Vatican Pope Benedict XV had written two handwritten letters to the Sultan to ask him to stop the massacre of the Armenians. Letters unanswered effects. After that the Pope would have alerted the world public opinion about the fate of Armenians slaughtered in the Ottoman Empire. Michael’s book Hasemann “Völkermord an den Armeniern” was released in Germany in April and the author hopes the face of success, it will be translated into Armenian and published in Armenia. He also hopes that the Vatican documents related to Armenian genocide are received by the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Michael Hasemann also claims that today the Vatican has a very important role in the recognition of the genocide, including the declaration of Pope Francis in April recognizing the Armenian genocide.

Krikor Amirzayan

Filed Under: Articles, Books, Genocide Tagged With: archives, Armenian, Genocide, secret, Vatican

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