Armenia’s state is now the greatest threat to its own official Christian church

Jan 12, 2026 - 19:00
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Armenia’s state is now the greatest threat to its own official Christian church
This Christmas, the world’s oldest Christian church was under attack. The church in Armenia — a small country in the Caucasus and the first nation to adopt Christianity as its state religion in A.D. 301 — has been the object of a brutal campaign unleashed by country’s authoritarian ruler, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Recently, a striking…