“Fact” daily writes:

Recently, the certain passivity of the current authorities and Nikol Pashinyan in the declared war against the Armenian Apostolic Church is extremely obvious. Moreover, Pashinyan participates in liturgies where the name of Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II is not discounted, although he declared weeks ago that it is a matter of principle for him.

According to our sources, not only pre-election “logic” played a role in this “pause” of Pashinyan, but also the survey published by IRI the other day, the results of which the Pashinyan government was familiar with earlier. In particular, according to the results of the survey conducted in February 2026, 61 percent of respondents expressed satisfaction with the Armenian Apostolic Church. Moreover, in June 2025, that figure was 58 percent. This proves that the anti-church campaign of the current authorities, the use of law enforcement “instruments” against the clergy and other pressures do not produce the desired results of Pashinyan, even on the contrary.

According to the information we have, this does not mean that Pashinyan has stopped the anti-church campaign. On the contrary, according to our sources, they have now started working “underneath”, specifically following the financial movements of the AAP, finding “dirt”, in short, collecting tangible “files” in order to attack the Church with new force when needed.

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