GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT AMENDED LAW TO DETRIMENT OF ARMENIAN CHURCH
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July 12 2011
Armenia
TBILISI. – Georgian parliament on Tuesday session amended Civil Code.
It partially eliminated the legal status, which has been previously
granted to some religious communities including Armenian Apostolic
Church.
According to new amendments, religious communities have right to
register as religious organizations, but the rest of the licenses were
cancelled, founder of Armenian Assembly of Tbilisi Arnold Stepanyan
told Armenian News-NEWS.am. Stepanyan told that this consensus
lessened inner political tension between Georgian authorities and
Georgian Orthodox Church to the detriment of Armenian Apostolic
Church. Previously it inspired hopes to claim for taking back Armenian
churches. However, new law buried all hopes.
According to Armenian-Georgian representative, increase of
anti-Armenian disposition coincided with visits of Armenian Catholicos
and Armenian FM. However, it is strange that only Armenians faced
such complaint, as amendments in the law referred also to Catholic,
Baptist churches and Jewish, Muslim communities.
Earlier Armenian News-NEWS.am informed that Georgian parliament made
amendments in Civil Code on July 5 and granted legal status to Armenian
Apostolic and other churches. Georgian Patriarch Ilya II was against
the decision.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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