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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 Catholicos extended his fatherly blessing and expressed gratitude to the ARF’s youth and student structures for uniting ...

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 ...

Security forces faced off with crowds Friday at the headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church as the government sought to arrest a clergyman in the latest move against outspoken critics of ...

The prime minister also accused the Armenian patriarch, Catholicos Karekin II, of being Armenia's “first mafioso”, transgressing all the commandments “starting with that of chastity”.

Nikol Pashinyan (left) and Karekin II pray together soon after the former’s ascend to power in 2018. The relationship has since soured. (Photo: primeminister.am) Tension between church and state is ...