Thursday, December 06, 2007

Bulgarian Orthodox Church honored the memory of Armenian genocide victims 1915 and 1917

Sofia. Bulgarian Orthodox Church expressed sincere compassion concerning the 90th anniversary from the genocide over the Christian Armenian people. Bulgarian Orthodox Church will say prayers for the cruelly killed ones, the letter says sent by Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim to His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, the Holly Synod informed FOCUS News Agency.

The Armenian Genocide, called as well Armenian Holocaust, is a term which marks the forced mass deportation and homicide of over million Armenians from the Young Turks authorities in the period 1915 and 1917 in the Ottoman Empire.

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