Government threatens to remove head of Armenian Church

The Prime Minister is launching a full blown intervention into what he claims is a ‘systemic crisis’ in the Oriental Orthodox Church.

The Armenian Prime Minister announced Aug. 24 an investigation into what it claims is a “systemic crisis” of the Armenian Apostolic Church, just a few days after his administration announced a government-led reform of the country’s majority Church, including a change of its leadership.

Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. Cr…