Yerevan Pope Francis headed to Armenia's genocide memorial on June 25 for a prayer service, fresh from his ad libbed declaration that the Ottoman era massacre of Armenians a century ago was a planned genocide. Pope Francis laid a floral wreath at the memorial and greet descendants of the Armenian orphans who were taken in by Pope Pius XI in the 1920s and housed at his summer residence south of Rome. Pope Francis drew a standing ova- tion upon in his arrival on June 24 Armenia -AP