Etchmiadzin Condemns Deployment of Security Forces in Gyumri Church Where Pashinyan Attended Mass

Priests Forced Out of Gyumri Church for Service Attended by Pashinyan

By Satenik Kaghzvantsyan GYUMRI (Azatutyun) — Priests serving at the main church of Gyumri were forced to leave it ahead of a mass on Sunday, December 7, held there by renegade clerics as part of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s intensifying efforts to depose Catholicos Karekin II. Pashinyan attended it along with scores of his political allies and government and law-enforcement officials. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other officials atten…

Etchmiadzin Condemns Deployment of Security Forces in Gyumri Church Where Pashinyan Attended Mass

National Security Service forces on Sunday were deployed to a church in Gyumri, where Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and members of his government attended Sunday Mass, led by clerics who have opted to side with the prime minister in his ongoing crusade against the Armenian Church and Catholicos Karekin II. Priests serving at the main church of Gyumri were forced to leave it ahead of a Sunday mass held as National Security Service forces surroun…