He was accused of planning to carry out bombings and arson attacks to disrupt power supplies and stage accidents on major roads to paralyze traffic.

Church decries ‘anti-clerical campaign’ after premier alleged that Catholicos fathered a child and backed a coup plot.

The Armenian government and the Armenian Apostolic Church are at odds with each other, and the World Council of Churches has ...

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Lawmakers voted to strip Artur Sargsyan of his parliamentary immunity, opening him up to prosecution. Skip to content Mastodon Covering the world of religion.

Armenia has arrested a second prominent cleric on charges of plotting against the government, the latest escalation in a ...

Armenia's liberal government has never been an ally of the deeply conservative Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), but when Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made extraordinary allegations against an ...

The cleric, who leads the opposition movement Sacred Struggle, last year accused the leader of ceding territory to Azerbaijan and led mass protests that ultimately failed to topple the prime minister.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to cancel his attendance at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in the Hague, a source with direct knowledge said on Monday.

A brawl broke out Tuesday in Armenia's National Assembly involving an opposition lawmaker who later was stripped of his ...

Armenia and Iran have warm ties, despite Armenia’s Christian religion, and increasingly pro-Western orientation. In 2022, Iran was Armenia’s fourth-largest source of imports.