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Armenian Orthodox leader warns of possible genocide in disputed territory

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:27:25 -0400

VATICAN CITY -- The patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, said the escalating violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh region has the potential to become another genocide of the Armenian people.

A hundred days in hell

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:22:50 -0400

The most harrowing interview I ever did was with a man who told me in excellent French that his name was Innocent.

The Rwandan genocide: Twenty-five years later

mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 08:52:13 -0400

Just 25 years after Leo Kabalisa lost his parents, his brothers, his uncles, his aunts and most of his friends in 100 days of frenzied killing in Rwanda, he is seeing a rising tide of Rwandan genocide denial, justification, equivocation and outright amnesia.

New U.S. law will provide relief to genocide victims of Islamic State in Iraq, Syria

cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:04:49 -0500

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has signed into law the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018, which will provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria and hold accountable Islamic State perpetrators of genocide.

Fr. Patrick Desbois warns of growing anti-Semitism in Europe

mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:53:47 -0400

Electoral successes for the ultra-right across Europe is being accompanied by a frightening rise in attacks on Jews, while left wing parties give ethical cover to anti-Semites with constant criticism of Israel, Fr. Patrick Desbois said at an event hosted by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies at Toronto��Ƶapp Glenn Gould Theatre Oct. 15.

Myanmar military leaders must be prosecuted for genocide, U.N. fact-finders say

cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:09:00 -0400

MANDALAY, Myanmar – U.N. fact-finding mission said senior military officials in Myanmar must be prosecuted for genocide and war crimes against Rohingya Muslims and other ethnic minorities.

Syriac Catholic bishops call attention to repeat "tragedy of genocide" of the faithful

cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:55:47 -0400

BEIRUT – Syriac Catholic bishops from around the world, meeting in Lebanon for their annual synod, lamented the plight of their "tormented and persecuted" faithful.

Report: Global persecution of Christians at historic high

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:48:45 -0400

New York City, N.Y. - Anti-Christian persecution is “worse than at any time in history” and in many cases genocide and other crimes against humanity “now mean that the Church in core countries and regions faces the possibility of imminent wipe-out,” says a new report from Aid to the Church in Need.

Pope apologizes for Catholics' participation in Rwanda genocide

cns@catholicnews.com (Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service) — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:10:00 -0400

VATICAN CITY – Meeting Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Pope Francis asked God's forgiveness for the failures of the Catholic Church during the 1994 Rwanda genocide and for the hatred and violence perpetrated by some priests and religious.

Panel: Genocide, wars, indifference will make Mideast Christians extinct

Tue, 06 Dec 2016 19:00:00 -0500

NEW YORK – Christians in the Middle East face extinction because of genocide, wars and international indifference to their plight, according to panelists at a Dec. 5 interfaith forum in New York.