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Yerevan's city centre on New Year's Eve. Photo: Yerevan Municipality

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Controversy after Armenian Catholicos’ New Year speech not aired on Public TV

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•3 min read

Armenia’s Apostolic Church and Public TV are in dispute after the head of the church’s New Year’s Eve speech was not broadcast for the first time in Armenia’s post-independence history, amidst a souring in relations between the church and the government. In previous years, the public broadcaster has aired a speech by the Catholicos, the head of the Armenian church, shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve. A statement released by the Mother See, the Church’s governing body, on the evening

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Armenia’s Jehovah’s Witnesses: ‘enemies of the state’

by Armine Avetisyan

•7 min read

Armenian identity is so tightly interwoven with religion that it can often be heard that the only true Armenian is a follower of the Armenian Church. Contempt, discrimination, and outright hatred towards religious minorities have led to a worryingly widespread perception of them as outsiders — a threat to Armenian statehood. Deadly discrimination Anna (not her real name), 45, comes from Gyumri. She used to work as an Armenian language teacher in a local school, but was forced to leave af