Previous popes had finessed the question of whether the killing of 1.5 million Armenians was genocide . The Armenian Genocide is a term used to describe what happened in 1915 when Ottoman forces killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians, mostly by burning them alive or massacring them.
Previous popes had finessed the question of whether the killing of 1.5 million Armenians was genocide . Because he often shines such a smiley face on the world , it can be easy to forget the bluntness Francis sometimes brings to the bully pulpit .