Armenia’s Church-state clash: PM Pashinyan targets clergy amid EU pivot

Armenia’s Church-state clash: PM Pashinyan targets clergy amid EU pivot

A resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has highlighted growing tensions between Armenia’s Government and the Armenian Apostolic…

Armenian Prime Minister confronts Patriarch Kakerin: he wants to remove him from office and calls him schismatic - ZENIT

(ZENIT News / Cologne, 01.29.2026).- As Armenian Christians prepared to celebrate Christmas on January 6 — a date unique to several Eastern Churches that mark both Christ’s Nativity and Baptism on the same day — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chose the moment to unveil a dramatic political intervention into one of the world’s oldest Christian institutions. Just days before the feast, Pashinyan announced a sweeping “roadmap of reforms” for the Ar…