Pope Francis has paid a formal tribute to the estimated 1.5 million Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks in 1915-18.
Visiting the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial, a monument to the martyrs, Pope Francis wrote in the guestbook: "May God preserve the memory of the Armenian people. Memories should not be watered down or forgotten; memory is a source of peace and of the future."
The words were in addition to those the Pope had planned to write, praying that humanity would never again know the large-scale massacre of a people and that by remembering such tragedies of the past, people would learn to vanquish evil with good.
