Given the recent tragic skirmishes between the government of Armenia and the national church, which have created yet another ...

Catholicos Karekin II condemned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s efforts to depose him and other senior clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church during a religious festival held in Etchmiadzin on ...

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday threatened to forcibly remove Catholicos Karekin II II from his Etchmiadzin headquarters if the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church continues to ...

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In the wake of a National Security Service (NSS) raid at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin on Friday, Catholicos of All Armenia ...

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Security forces faced off with crowds at the headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church as the government sought to arrest a cleric, in the latest move against outspoken critics of Prime Minister ...

With each passing day, Armenia is sliding further into dictatorship. The vulgar, even pornographic, language Prime Minister ...

The Armenian PM has previously accused Karekin II of having a child and breaking his priestly vows — and has called for the Catholics to resign his pole position in the church.

He addressed Karekin II by his birth name Ktrij Nersisyan, saying he was ‘ready to accept Ktrij Nersisyan and his spokesperson [father Ashuryan] and prove the opposite’ about being circumcised.

Recently, Karekin II demanded the right of return for the Armenians who fled Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan that it recaptured in 2023.