Armenian religious leader opposed to registration of Jehovah’sWitnes

Armenian religious leader opposed to registration of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Mediamax news agency
15 Oct 04

Yerevan, October 15: The leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church,
Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II expressed concern today in
connection with the official registration of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
religious sect in Armenia.

The Mediamax news agency reports that at a meeting with the monastery
clergymen and community of the Holy See at Echmiadzin, the Catholicos
described as “wrong and unfair” accusations that the Armenian Apostolic
Church clergymen do not entirely fulfil their spiritual mission.

“Garegin II also described as inadmissible the arguments made in
support of the decision to register the totalitarian sect,” the press
service at Saint Echmiadzin told Mediamax news agency.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS