Pope Francis: ‘Suffering for One’s Religious Belief Has Become a Daily Reality’
By Patrick Goodenough | June 26, 2016 | 8:14 PM EDT
(CNSNews.com) – Pope Francis joined an Armenian leader Sunday in lamenting the persecution of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East – and angered Turkey by once again referring to the atrocities committed against Armenian Christians a century ago as “genocide.”
The pontiff and Armenian Apostolic leader Karekin II in a joint statement spoke of the “immense tragedy” of “countless innocent people” being killed, displaced or exiled as a result of conflicts carried out on ethnic, religious, political or economic grounds
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