Armenian Apostolic Church leader to face trial as feud with PM deepens

Catholicos Karekin II, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and six other clergymen are facing trial on charges of failing to reinstate a bishop who had been defrocked. The case is the latest escalation in a deepening feud between the church leadership and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's government. The charges mark an unprecedented legal confrontation between the state and Armenia's dominant religious institution.

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