Why clergyman not to be paid and have health insurance - premier

ArmInfo. Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan announced in the National Assembly on August 25 that the  government will present a report on the activities of the Armenian  Apostolic Church within a month.

"I will propose creating a parliamentary investigative commission on  this issue. You know, today's clergy are doomed to poverty, and the  Church itself has its good and bad sides. Where there's a large  congregation... Let's say a multitude of poor priests are sent to a  church somewhere on the edge of the world, where maybe 15 people will  come a month. No one cares whether this person is hungry or healthy,"  Pashinyan noted.

He also questioned why clergy shouldn't receive a salary and benefit  from state-funded health insurance.