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Armenian 'Genocide' Remarks By Pope Francis Spark Row With Turkey

Pope Francis (left) is greeted by the head of Armenia's Orthodox Church, Karekin II, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. The two met during an Armenian-Rite Mass.
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Pope Francis (left) is greeted by the head of Armenia's Orthodox Church, Karekin II, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. The two met during an Armenian-Rite Mass.

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Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.
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