Catholicos Karekin II
By Arshaluys Barseghyan Khachatur Galstyan, the prosecutor in the case against Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and six senior bishops, has resigned from his post. The Prosecutor General’s Office[...]
YEREVAN — On August 7, following the first court hearing in the criminal case against Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, and six bishops who are members[...]
YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — A 29-year-old judge has been assigned to preside over the trial of Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II just days after one of his colleagues recused himself[...]
WATERTOWN/PARIS — Earlier this year, a new organization came to be in Armenia, called the International Observatory for Democracy in Armenia (IODA), an independent, ad hoc monitoring body which has[...]
YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — An Armenian court on April 13 struck down a travel ban imposed on Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II earlier this year amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s[...]
WATERTOWN — Issues that on the surface appear to pertain to domestic Armenian politics have appeared frequently in international fora and media and conversely internationally known figures have become involved[...]
By Naira Bulghadarian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Law-enforcement authorities indicted Catholicos Karekin II on Saturday, February 14, one day after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan implicitly pledged to prevent an upcoming meeting[...]
By Susan Badalian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Armenian law-enforcement authorities have indicted six more bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church, raising to ten the total number of senior clergymen prosecuted amid[...]
By Susan Badalian ROME (Azatutyun) — Catholicos Karekin II again accused Azerbaijan of destroying Armenian churches in Nagorno-Karabakh and called for the release of Armenian prisoners held by Baku when[...]
YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am) — The Armenian Apostolic Church accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday, July 21, of planning a violent attack on its Echmiadzin headquarters one day after he urged[...]