Armenia moves to end isolation: CEN 5.13.08 May 13, 2008
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| Armenia’s Church and State have begun a new round of diplomatic overtures designed to end the nation’s diplomatic and economic isolation in the Caucasus.
Last week the country’s Foreign Minister signaled its willingness to move on from the memory of the 1915 Genocide while on May 7 the head of the Armenian Church called for an end to “intolerance and confrontation” across the region. The Patriarch of the Armenia Apostolic Church sounded the chord of reconciliation during his visit to Rome last week. In an address on May 7 in St Peter’s Square to a congregation of 20,000, His Holiness Karekin II (pictured) spoke of Armenia’s attempts to gain international recognition of the country’s sufferings at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. “Today, many countries of the world recognize and condemn the genocide committed against the Armenian people by Ottoman Turkey,” the patriarch said. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper Religious Intelligence section. |
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