Boston Globe: Copley Square service marks anniversary of Armenian genocide

Christian leaders from various traditions led an Armenian vespers service Thursday evening at Trinity Church in Copley Square to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks.

The service — whose leaders included Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Armenian church leaders, and whose speakers included representatives of the Jewish and Muslim communities and Governor Charlie Baker — underscored widespread solidarity in Boston with the Armenian community in its long quest to gain recognition of the massacres as a genocide.

“We will name this evil for what it is — genocide,” said the Rev. Laura Everett, executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, the state’s main ecumenical organization, who preached the sermon. “Because . . . nothing short of this name will suffice, because nothing short of this truth can set us free.”

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