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Rather than fizzling out, the movement to replace Pashinyan is gaining strength

Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan speaking at a “Tavush for the Homeland” protest in central Yerevan (Photo: Anthony Pizzoferrato, May 26, 2024)

Ever since Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan with his thousands of followers started marching towards Yerevan, many wondered what would happen on May 9 once they reached Republic Square where Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s offices are located.

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Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

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  1. A traitor like Pashinyan may conveniently choose to ignore, that by far the oldest Armenian institution in the world, the Armenian Apostolic Church, survived, when Armenian states perished under the onslaught of invaders, and kept the Armenian language, culture, repository and nationhood alive since the 4th century and also played such an important part in the Armenian national movement and in the realization of Armenian statehood after being subjugated, oppressed, enslaved and massacred for many centuries.

    Pashinyan’s hostility and his relentless attacks against the Armenian Apostolic Church is disgusting, and unprecedented since Bolshevik times. Not even in the post-Stalinist Soviet era, did the Armenian Apostolic Church and its leadership receive such threats and verbal attacks. If Pashinyan is a member, then the Armenian Apostolic Church must immediately excommunicate traitors like him and ban him from entering every church.

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