Talk about a package deal!
Believed to be the biggest canonisation service in history, the Armenian Church on Thursday conferred sainthood on some 1.5 million Armenians massacred by Ottoman forces a century ago, as tensions raged over Turkey's refusal to recognise the killings as genocide.
Clerics take part in the canonization ceremony for the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Echmiadzin
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