The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has prepared a scathing report on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s attacks on the Armenian Apostolic Church. International lawyer Robert Amsterdam wrote about this.
“I draw your attention to a remarkable passage in the report:
‘Throughout 2025, Prime Minister Pashinyan proposed establishing and personally appointing a council to elect a new Armenian Apostolic Church leader, and elevated clergy who aligned with his agenda to oust the current Catholicos. Pashinyan’s attacks on Catholicos Karekin II coincided with the arrest of AAC clerics and other lay members who had criticized or expressed political opposition to Pashinyan’s government,’” he wrote.
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