VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis used the word “genocide” on Sunday to describe the mass murder of Armenians in a move likely to severely strain diplomatic ties with Turkey.

“In the past century our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies,” he said during a solemn mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica to mark the centenary of the Ottoman Turk killings of Armenians.

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