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

PanARMENIAN.Net - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has declined to specify which article of the Armenian Constitution he relies ...

A brawl erupted in Armenia’s National Assembly involving an opposition lawmaker who later was stripped of his parliamentary ...

Armenian security forces clashed with clergymen Friday as they tried to raid the seat of the country's Apostolic Church, the latest chapter of an escalating conflict between the two sides.On Friday, ...

Armenia has arrested a second prominent cleric accused of plotting against the government. On Saturday, a court ordered Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan to remain in pre-trial detention for two ...

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have met in Abu Dhabi for a new round of talks on ending their almost four decades of ...

Armenia's PM Pashinyan foils coup plot involving senior cleric amid escalating conflict with powerful Apostolic Church.

The Armenian government and the Armenian Apostolic Church are at odds with each other, and the World Council of Churches has ...

For years, the decline was considered inevitable. Church attendance dropped, generations drifted away and parish activities ...

Armenia's elected leader had pledged not to meddle in the religious affairs, but has now moved against the Church Armenia's liberal government has never been an ally of the deeply conservative ...

A bitter standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church has seen mass arrests, allegations of a coup plot, and an extraordinary offer by Armenia's leader to ...

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 ...