Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II

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[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — In an apparent stern rebuke to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Catholicos Karekin II condemned “reprehensible attempts to deny or question” the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Catholicos Karekin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, listed “lust for power” among Armenia’s problems on Monday, January 6, as he celebrated a Christmas[...]

ECHMIADZIN (Public Radio of Armenia) —  Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, welcomed former International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin on December[...]

Catholicos Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, asked for people to join the prayer for Armenian hostages on November 10. “We are convinced that such a global[...]

WASHINGTON — A leadership delegation of the Armenian Assembly of America visiting Yerevan, Armenia, earlier this month conducted a round of meetings that included officials from the governments of Armenia,[...]

By Ruzanna Stepanian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s political team announced on May 31 plans to impose more taxes on the Armenian Apostolic Church amid continuing anti-government protests[...]

By Susan Badalian, Gayane Saribekian and Shoghik Galstian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan defended on Wednesday, May 29, police officers who tried to physically stop Catholicos Karekin II,[...]

By Shoghik Galstian YEREVAN (azatutyun.am) — Police tried to stop the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, from visiting a war memorial on[...]