Tag: Mikayel Ajapahyan

Archbishop Mikayel Ajapahyan served as the Primate of the Shirak Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church. He was arrested in June 2025 as part of the wave of clergy detentions that followed the suppression of the Holy Struggle movement led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan. In October 2025, Ajapahyan was sentenced to two years in prison, making his case one of the most concrete legal outcomes of the government’s confrontation with senior church figures.

Groong has followed his arrest, trial, and sentencing as part of broader coverage of the church-state conflict in Armenia and what critics describe as the Pashinyan government’s use of the judicial system to neutralize politically inconvenient clergy.

Dziunik Aghajanian – Fallout from Israel’s War on Iran, Azerbaijan’s Confrontation with Russia, Pashinyan’s Persecution of the Armenian Church, while he courts the EU | Ep 451 [EP451]

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 1, 2025 | Category: Armenia, Politics, Iran, Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Turkey, USA, Israel, Armenian Church, Artsakh, Georgia | Series: wir, video

Guest:

Topics:

  • Iran War
  • Iran-Azerbaijan Relations
  • Russian-Azerbaijani Tensions
  • Russian-Armenian Relations
  • Persecution of The Church Continues
  • Kaja Kallas in Armenia
  • OIC Declaration

Episode 451 | Recorded: June 30, 2025

Dziunik Aghajanian – Fallout from Israel’s War on Iran, Azerbaijan’s Confrontation with Russia, Pashinyan’s Persecution of the Armenian Church, while he courts the EU | Ep 451 [EP451]

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 1, 2025 | Category: Armenia, Politics, Iran, Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Turkey, USA, Israel, Armenian Church, Artsakh, Georgia

Guest:

Topics:

  • Iran War
  • Iran-Azerbaijan Relations
  • Russian-Azerbaijani Tensions
  • Russian-Armenian Relations
  • Persecution of The Church Continues
  • Kaja Kallas in Armenia
  • OIC Declaration

Episode 451 | Recorded: June 30, 2025