The Russian and Novo-Nakhichevan dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic Church issued a joint statement

ArmInfo. The clergy of the Russian and New Nakhichevan Dioceses of the Holy Armenian Apostolic Church issued a joint statement expressing "deep concern and resolute condemnation of the unconstitutional, God-fighting, church-grabbing, and anti-church policies of the authorities of the Republic of Armenia, the illegal detention of clergy on trumped-up charges and their deliberate discrediting, as well as the persecution and detention of honest sons of the Armenian people who raised their voices in defense of the Armenian Church."

"This anti-national campaign, accompanied by obscene and unacceptable language from government officials, as well as the dissemination of false and slanderous information, poisons public consciousness, weakens national unity, and sows discord and hostility, which is extremely dangerous and destructive for the Homeland.

We appeal to the faithful of our Church to be vigilant, not to succumb to the provocations of the authorities, and not to be guided by the malicious lies spread in the public sphere, for they are abominable and hateful before God.

We call for national unity, for the protection of our spiritual and national values, for fidelity to Holy Etchmiadzin, established by God—the spiritual center of all Armenians—and to stand with all the militant and faithful clergy under the leadership of the people-elected Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Garegin II," the statement reads. in the Statement.