His Holiness Karekin II Extends Sympathies to Pope John Paul II
04.08.2004
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, has sent a letter of sympathy and support to Pope John Paul II, related to the terrorist events directed against Catholic churches in Iraq on August 1, 2004.
The letter of His Holiness states in part, "We are saddened that some extreme elements are attempting to endanger the centuries of friendship and peaceful co-existence among the Christian and Muslim peoples of the East, and offer our prayers to the Almighty that the love of our Lord Jesus Christ will enter into the hearts of men, reconcile them one to another, and that violence and war will be eliminated from the region and all of humanity."
The Catholicos of All Armenians has sent a similar letter to the Patriarch of the Armenian Catholics, His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX.
