Armenian Church to canonise 1.5 million genocide victims Armenia's main church, Echmiadzin, an austere fourth-century edifice believed to be the Christian world's oldest cathedral, set to hold a service to canonise up to 1.5 million Armenians massacred by Ottoman forces as tensions over Turkey's refusal to recognise the killings as genocide reached boiling point. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES of morning ceremony ahead of service