Vatican to publish documents on Armenian Genocide

The Vatican will open its archives in 2012, said Bishop Sergio Pagano, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives.

The exhibition entitled “Lux in Arcane: The Vatican Secret Archives unveiled” will be inaugurated in the Capitoline Museums in Rome in February 2012 and will display valuable documents held in the Vatican, from the eighth century to the twentieth century, Turkish Hurriyet Daily reports.

Sergio Pagano noted that the archives include documents on the Armenian Genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire in 1895-1921.

“When I read documents about the torture practices used by the Turks against the Armenians, I feel an irrepressible sense of pain and horror. Some of the papers describe how Turkish soldiers bet and played dice to guess the sex of a child before stabbing him or her with a bayonet after extracting them out of the womb. This is merely inhumane,” Pagano said.

Gianfranco Ravasi, President of Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture of Vatican recently said in Armenia that they intend to vivify cultural relations between Armenia and Vatican. To this aims exhibitions are planned to be opened in both countries.

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