"The stout oak of the centuries-old Armenian church is in its place, while the rootless thorn soars in the air." Tigran Davudyan

Iranologist Tigran Davudyan's Facebook post: "It all started on this fateful day, May 22, 2025. Pashazadeh, among other issues, also spoke about the establishment of a "Sharia ghaziyat in Yerevan" and the "great threat to the Armenian Church." The Azerbaijani authorities knew that Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II would participate in the international conference "Religious Freedom: Preservation of the Armenian Spiritual, Cultural and Historical Heritage" organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Protestant Church of Switzerland in Bern on May 26-28, 2025. The Catholicos gave a speech there on May 27 and spoke about the violated rights of the Armenians of Artsakh. It was an unpleasant surprise for Baku and Yerevan. The news reached Yerevan, to the Divanbaş and his wife. On May 29, they launched a volley against the Catholicosate. The first recalled the “desecration” of Armenian churches, and the second said, “What are you going to do, you pedophiles, we went to Switzerland?” On June 18, they arrested and then detained the ardent defender of the Armenian Church, benefactor Samvel Karapetyan. Later, they began to arrest a group of Armenian clergy and members of the family of His Holiness Karekin II. From desecration, they moved on to having a “child” of the Catholicos, then dumping his uncle, then holding a spiritual gathering in the square of Etchmiadzin, then a “KGB” brother, then “receiving instructions from a general from another country,” then participating in gatherings of a political nature, then searching for an alternative Catholicos, then obstructing the convening of the Episcopal Conference, then “thefts,” then saying that the Catholicos’ resignation was only hours away, and finally, “We don’t have a Catholicos.” "And what is the real end? The stout oak of the centuries-old Armenian Church is in its place, and the rootless thorn is floating in the air."