Church decries ‘anti-clerical campaign’ after premier alleged that Catholicos fathered a child and backed a coup plot.

The confrontation between Church and state began at the end of May when the prime minister accused the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, of breaking his vow of celibacy and ...

Nikol Pashinyan, the head of government, angered the highest dignitary of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Karekin II, by ...

The Armenian Apostolic Church accused of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday of planning a violent attack on its ...

Continuing his crusade against the Etchmiadzin and its leader, Catholicos Karekin II, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on ...

What do you want from me?" said Pashinyan. He also accused the supreme spiritual leader - Catholicos Karekin II - of breaking his vow of celibacy and fathering a child, calling on him to resign. The ...

The prime minister of Armenia has vowed to prove his faith by dropping his trousers to the head of the church. Nikol Pashinyan was challenged to ‘prove’ his member is uncircumcised in a bitter feud ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - On the Feast of the Transfiguration, or Vardavar, Armenian youth in Moscow publicly expressed support for ...

Patriarch Karekin II, leader of all the world's Armenian Apostolics, is caught in an unprecedented media and political storm. Such a scandal has not occurred in modern times to the point of ...

His Holiness Karekin II, the leader of the worldwide Armenian Apostolic Church, arrives in Houston today as part of a monthlong pastoral visit to 16 U.S. cities.

Karekin II, who was elected Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of. All Armenians in 1999, had visited Southern California in May 2001. But on that trip, he didn’t make a stop at the Costa Mesa church.

Welcomed by faithful supporters, His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, the highest ranking official in the Armenian Apostolic Church, has begun a tour of California that will ...