December 5, 2025

Pervoprestol’nyy Svyatoy Echmiadzin trebuyet nemedlenno prekratit’ nezakonnoye presledovaniye arkhiyepiskopa Arshaka Khachatryana i ostayushchikhsya v zaklyuchenii svyashchennosluzhiteley. Zayavleniye Pervoprestol’nyy Svyatoy Echmiadzin reshitel’no osuzhdayet arest arkhiyepiskopa Arshaka Khachatryana, glavy Pervoprestol’noy Tserkvi, 4 dekabrya po sfabrikovannym i neobosnovannym obvineniyam, a takzhe izbraniye yemu sudom mery presecheniya v vide zaklyucheniya pod strazhu. Ob etom govoritsya v zayavlenii Pervoprestol’noy Tserkvi. «Eti deystviya yavlyayutsya proyavleniyem nedavnikh repressiy protiv Tserkvi i prodolzheniyem protsessa politicheskikh presledovaniy dukhovenstva. Zaklyucheniye pod strazhu vysokopostavlennykh svyashchennosluzhiteley po sfabrikovannym obvineniyam — ocherednoye proyavleniye politiki vlastey po razlozheniyu tserkvi i razzhiganiyu nenavisti v otnoshenii dukhovenstva. Pervoprestol’nyy Svyatoy Echmiadzin trebuyet nemedlenno prekratit’ nezakonnoye presledovaniye arkhiyepiskopa Arshaka Khachatryana i ostayushchikhsya v zaklyuchenii svyashchennosluzhiteley. «Nezakonnoye presledovaniye arkhiyepiskopa Arshaka Khachatryana i ostayushchikhsya v zaklyuchenii svyashchennosluzhiteley i vosstanovleniye ikh narushennykh prav», — govoritsya v zayavlenii. Ещё 1 143 / 5 000 The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin demands an immediate end to the illegal persecution of Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan and the remaining imprisoned clergy. Statement

The anti-church policy pursued by the authorities is a matter of grave concern. I hope that these malicious attacks will be neutralized. His Holiness