YEREVAN, Armenia: Pope Francis heads to Armenia's genocide memorial today for a prayer service, fresh from his ad-libbed declaration that the Ottoman-era massacre of Armenians a century ago was a planned "genocide."
Francis is due to lay a floral wreath at the memorial and greet descendants of the Armenian orphans who were taken in by Pope Pius XI in the 1920s and housed at his summer residence south of Rome.
Francis drew a standing ovation upon his arrival on Friday in Armenia when he denounced what he called the ideologically twisted, planned "genocide" of Armenians starting in 1915.
After the genocide memorial visit, Francis heads to northwest Gyumri for his only public Catholic Mass, and a prayer for peace.
Francis is due to lay a floral wreath at the memorial and greet descendants of the Armenian orphans who were taken in by Pope Pius XI in the 1920s and housed at his summer residence south of Rome.
Francis drew a standing ovation upon his arrival on Friday in Armenia when he denounced what he called the ideologically twisted, planned "genocide" of Armenians starting in 1915.
After the genocide memorial visit, Francis heads to northwest Gyumri for his only public Catholic Mass, and a prayer for peace.
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