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The Prime Minister versus the Church Why Armenian Leader Nikol Pashinyan Is Arresting Priests over an Alleged Coup Plot
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The prime minister versus the church Why Armenian leader Nikol Pashinyan is arresting priests over an alleged coup plot
On June 27, officers from Armenia’s National Security Service attempted to storm the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, a monastic complex near Yerevan that serves as the residence of Catholicos Karekin II, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC). They were searching for Mikael Adjapakhyan, head of the Church’s Shirak Diocese, whom state investigators had accused of calling to overthrow the government, and they soon found and detained him. …
In prison two archbishops (including Galstanyan) after a police raid in the patriarchate of Ečmjadzin.Pašinyan accuses directly the katholicosKarekin II asking for its removal, the Armenian clergy respond by invoking the excommunication of the premier. According to the government behind the "maneuvers" of the Church there would be Moscow, but other voices denouncing the use of marking any opposition with "the stamp of the spies of the Kremlin." …
Parliamentary elections are due to be held in Armenia in June 2026, but relations between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church, the country’s largest church, are already increasingly strained. Pashinyan and the church’s leader, Catholicos Karekin II, have been embroiled in a heated exchange of words in the media, while authorities have also arrested two of the church’s archbishops on charges of attempting or inciting …
By Cleber Lourenço Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court, decided to maintain the preventive detention of Lieutenant Colonel Rodrigo Bezerra de Azevedo, identified as a member of the so-called nucleus 3 of the attempted coup d’état. According to the Attorney General’s Office, the group was formed by military personnel from the Army Special Forces — identified in […]
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