Pashinian, Entourage Shun Armenian Christmas Mass

Pashinian, Entourage Shun Armenian Christmas Mass
Հունվար 06, 2021
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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian declined to attend on Wednesday a Christmas mass celebrated by Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church increasingly at loggerheads with Armenia’s government.
Parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan and other key members of Pashinian’s political team were also conspicuously absent. Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian was the only senior state official present at the liturgy held at Saint Gregory the Illuminator’s Cathedral in Yerevan.
Pashinian congratulated Armenians on Christmas, marked by their ancient church on January 6, with an excerpt from the Gospel posted on his Facebook page. His spokeswoman, Mane Gevorgian, said later in the morning that he did not go to the mass because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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