Focus News, Bulgaria
Dec 5 2007
Bulgarian Orthodox Church honored the memory of Armenian genocide
victims 1915 and 1917
5 December 2007 | 13:18 | FOCUS News Agency
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.