Armenia News reported July 11, 2011 on an appeal by Pope Leo XIII (Pope: 1878-1903) to the Turkish sultan to stop the 1894-1896 massacre of Armenian Christians. That appeal was recently disclosed by the Vatican Archives.
Following the release of the "Secret Archives" dealing with Armenia, a reporter for the Turkish Vatan newspaper interviewed Archbishop Sergio Pagano, who is in charge of the Vatican Archives.
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Archbishop Pagano "stressed that back in 1896 ... Pope Leo XIII called on the Sultan to show sympathy and stop the genocide."
"Pagano said that the documents and information about the Armenian genocide from Vatican's …
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