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A Priest’s Complaint About Armenian Government Strikes a Chord With the Faithful


Image: Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral. Yerevan, Armenia. Author: Marcin Konsek / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0
A priest’s recent criticism of the Armenian government was a rare display of discord between a church and state that usually pull in tandem.
Father Armen Melkonian, a priest in the church’s diocese in Maastricht, Holland, leveled the criticism at a rally outside the Armenian Embassy in Amsterdam last week.
The church responded by dismissing him from his priest’s duties in Maastricht, although it allowed him to keep taking part in parish activities in an unofficial capacity.
The crowd outside the embassy was …read more

Source: The Huffington Post

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