The concert will be held on Dec. 21 at 4 p.m. at St. Mark Armenian Church, located at 2427 Wilbraham Road. Tickets for the event, open to all members of the community, are $20 for adults, $10 for students and free for children 10 and younger.

Human rights advocates said the Armenian government’s crackdown on Christians has included the unlawful detentions of clergy.

BY DR. KEVORK HAGOPJIAN, ESQ. In Armenia today, the question is no longer whether the government is in conflict with Etchmiadzin. It is whether a democratic state can openly campaign to unseat the head of its national Church,

In many ways, the Armenian government’s policy towards the Church today is a return to the Soviet blueprint of repression and state control.

About a dozen bishops and archbishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church have openly revolted against its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II, amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s intensifying efforts to depose him.

On the fourth and final day of his Apostolic Journey to Turkey, Pope Leo XIV began the day with prayer at the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Istanbul, Vatican News informed Sunday In his address, the Pope sent his greetings to Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, and the entire Armenian Apostolic community in Turkey.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Fr. Andreas Tavadyan, former spiritual pastor of the Ghazanchetsots Church in Shushi, said he cannot take a definitive stance on the actions of Bishop Vrtanes and other clerics involved in the ongoing crisis within the Armenian Apostolic Church,

A priest in Gyumri claimed on Wednesday that officials from Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) have asked him to break canonical rules and defy Catholicos Garegin II so that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian can attend a Sunday mass at his church.