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Dozens of fans mobbed an SUV that took the couple, their
22-month-old child and Kardashian's sister Khloe to the church,
the girl and her father decked out in holy white and Kardashian
in a long crinkle pleated beige and peach colored outfit.
The celebrities flew to Israel after a five-day visit to
Armenia, homeland of Kardashian's ancestors, where on Friday she
placed flowers in Yerevan at a memorial to mass killings of
Armenians by forces of the Ottoman empire, which began in 1915.
Kardashian, West, their daughter and Kardashian's sister had
just visited Armenia, her family's homeland. Armenian Prime
Minister Hovik Abrahamyan praised the couple's contribution to
"international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian
genocide."
Muslim Turkey accepts many Christian Armenians died in partisan
fighting beginning in 1915, but it denies that up to 1.5 million
were killed and that it amounted to genocide.
Media reports said they were expected to head on to Jordan after
the baptism in St. James Cathedral in east Jerusalem, a church
decorated with blue and white tiles made by Armenian artists in
the 18th century.
(Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Larry King)
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