Pope Leo XIV dedicated the final morning of his visit to Turkey on Sunday to strengthening ties with the Armenian Apostolic Church, thanking God for “the courageous Christian witness of the Armenian people throughout history, often amid tragic circumstances.” Armenians are one of Turkey’s oldest Christian communities, who endured mass deportations and killings under the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1915, which Pope Francis termed a genocide.



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