Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II
By Naira Bulghadarian and Robert Zargarian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — The Armenian Apostolic Church has accused authorities of illegally stripping it of access to a medieval monastery where a defrocked priest[...]
YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — The Armenian Apostolic Church is undaunted by the arrests of two more of its priests, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II said on Sunday, October 19, after[...]
YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — One week after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan pledged to continue trying to depose him, Catholicos Karekin II accused Azerbaijan on Thursday, September 4, of destroying Armenian churches[...]
By Robert Zargarian YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday, June 26, threatened to forcibly remove Catholicos Karekin II from his Echmiadzin headquarters if the supreme head of[...]
By Susan Badalian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Catholicos Karekin II condemned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s efforts to depose him and other senior clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church during a religious[...]
By Dr. Arshavir Gundjian, C.M. Alas, Mr. Pashinyan…It is very difficult for us to understand the shortsighted thinking, amidst the already fragile current psychological state of the country, that led[...]
By Susan Badalian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan demanded the resignation of Catholicos Karekin II on Monday amid growing support for the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic[...]
YEREVAN — On June 2, a meeting of the Supreme Spiritual Council was held in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, under the chairmanship of Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and[...]
By Arshaluys Barseghyan YEREVAN (OC-Media) — The Armenian government and the church are facing renewed confrontation following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s statement that churches have been turned into “storerooms.”[...]
At the initiative of Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, an international conference titled “Religious Freedom: Preserving the Armenian Spiritual, Cultural, and Historical Heritage in[...]