Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper has covered the placement of a cross-stone given as a gift to Naples by the Armenia people at the St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church of Naples, Artsakhpress reports.

La Repubblica mentions that this initiative is part of the commemorative events dedicated to the Armenian Genocide Centennial.

The newspaper presents how the 2 meter 70 centimeter high cross-stone was moved to the church by the relevant experts of the city under the supervision of the architect in charge of the project and police officers of Naples. It took a couple of hours to do this.

Italy’s Retroonline.it has also presented information about the history of the Armenian Genocide with an article that presents the bloodiest and most horrible events of the 20^th century.

Presenting the political situation of the past couple of years in relation to Armenian Genocide recognition, the website also writes that the Armenian Genocide has caused great tension in the diplomatic relations between Ankara and the Vatican, especially in 2012 when Polish scholar Marco Yakov used the documents published by the Vatican for his book “Issue of the East from the Perspective of the Genocide (1894-1897)”.

In an article entitled “100 Years After the Great Catastrophe: The Armenian Genocide” posted on Notizieitalianews.com, the author writes that this year marks the 100^th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and mentions that a commemorative ceremony is held every  year on April 24^th since, according to historical evidence, that was the day when persecutions began and led to the killings of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. The author presents the events of 1915 and goes on to talk about Elif Shafak’s novel “The Bastard of Istanbul”, which is about the story of Asya of Istanbul and Armanush Chakmakhchian of Arizona, revealing through them various notions of the societies about the past.

As the author of the article writes, the painful story of the Christian Armenians goes to show that the history of Christianity must not be limited to a narrow circle, that the 100^th anniversary doesn’t only refer to the Armenian Church and that it should refer to all churches. The author recalls that the 100^th anniversary is recalled when the international community is following to see how the Christians are persecuted and annihilated in the Middle East.

The author concludes by reminding that the Pope of Rome and bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church have asked for God’s mercy “to help us all heal every wound with love for the truth and justice and to take specific steps to establish peace and reconciliation between nations that still haven’t reached consensus the start of such painful events”.

Korazym.org has also cited the words of the Pope of Rome, writing that a century later, the inheritors of the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide continue to deny it. The website presents how the Armenians were annihilated in Ottoman Turkey 100 years ago and mentions that the Parliament of Armenia has unanimously passed a draft law condemning the Assyrian and Greek genocides perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and 1923.

The website has also covered the conference on “History and Stories: Stories and Testimonies of the Armenian Genocide” held on the occasion of the Armenian Genocide Centennial in Rome in March 2015. During the conference, famous German publicist Michael Wagner, son of Armin Wagner who wrote what he saw and experienced while serving in German subdivisions in the Ottoman Empire during the years of the Armenian Genocide, recalled his father’s historic book.