Armenian Church Crisis Reveals Neo-Church Complicity with Persecutors
The Pillar portal reports on the Armenian government’s escalating assault on the Armenian Apostolic Church, detailing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s plan to depose Catholicos Karekin II and install a state-appointed “interim Catholicos.” The article outlines the legal persecution of bishops who refused a court order to reinstate a government-friendly prelate, the Prime Minister’s public denunciation of the Catholicos using his baptismal name, and allegations of moral turpitude and foreign collusion. Simultaneously, the report documents the “Holy See’s” deepening diplomatic entanglement with Azerbaijan—a regime accused of ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh—highlighting financial agreements, academic conferences whitewashing Azeri historical revisionism, and the bestowal of papal honors on Azeri officials. This convergence of secular tyranny against a schismatic hierarchy and the conciliar sect’s servility to the persecutors of Christians forms the thesis: the post-conciliar structure has abandoned the Kingship of Christ for the geopolitics of the Antichrist, rendering it an accomplice in the eradication of Christian witness.