The spiritual leaders of the Armenian Christian churches will participate in the April church liturgy to be offered in the St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, reported La Stampa daily of Italy.
Accordingly, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I, and Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni of the Armenian Catholic Church, will attend this mass.
The climax of the Armenian Genocide centennial memorial church events will be the genocide victims’ collective canonization ceremony, which will take place on April 23 in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. Representatives from 38 Christian churches and organizations have already confirmed their attendance to this event.
And on the same day at 19:15 (7:15pm), which symbolizes the genocide in 1915, the bells will sound one hundred times in the Armenian Apostolic Churches throughout the world.
