ArmInfo.Pope Francis awarded the Armenian Ambassador to the Vatican Mikael Minasyan with the Knight's Order of the Great Cross of Pope Pius.
According to the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, on March 16, during the solemn ceremony in the Apostolic Chamber of the Vatican, the governor of the State Secretariat of the Holy See, Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu handed the Order of the Holy Cross to the Armenian Ambassador.
As noted in the Pope's message, the order was awarded to Mikael Minasyan as an official evidence of a kind-hearted attitude towards him.