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ARMENIAN NATIONALISTS PROTEST SATANIST'S ACTIVITIES
tert.am
01.11.12
Facebook has become a platform for offending and defaming the Armenian
Apostolic Church, Armenian nationalists have complained.
At a news conference on Thursday, Director of the Armenian Church
Youth Association Gevorg Lazarian and a person in charge for the
organization's religious affairs, Archimandrite Yeghishe Avetisyan,
as well as a co-chair of the One Nation NGO, Gor Tamazyan, urged for
closing a Facebook page created by Bayandur Poghosyan, considering
him a Satanist.
"Perhaps everybody is well aware of our activities. They are
targeted against the religious sects; we also condemn homosexualism
and standards encouraging free manners. At the same time, we fight
pro-Western and pro-American political forces on the political arena,"
Tamazyan said, adding that their organization adheres to the principles
preached by Garegin Nzhdeh, a 19th-20th century Armenian statesman,
political thinker and a patriot.
The group said that Poghosyan has characterized their activities as
those of a killer, calling them fascists and racists.
Tamazyan added that the profile has another administrator, Sevak
Kirakosyan, who is affiliated with the gay and lesbian rights center
Pink.
"The post was left by Bayandur, but the page does not deny anything
or make a public apology," he said.
One Nation conducts an active advocacy by disseminating leaflets,
as well as proposing legal initiatives. It has called for declaring
Echmiadzin a religious city state.
From: Baghdasarian
tert.am
01.11.12
Facebook has become a platform for offending and defaming the Armenian
Apostolic Church, Armenian nationalists have complained.
At a news conference on Thursday, Director of the Armenian Church
Youth Association Gevorg Lazarian and a person in charge for the
organization's religious affairs, Archimandrite Yeghishe Avetisyan,
as well as a co-chair of the One Nation NGO, Gor Tamazyan, urged for
closing a Facebook page created by Bayandur Poghosyan, considering
him a Satanist.
"Perhaps everybody is well aware of our activities. They are
targeted against the religious sects; we also condemn homosexualism
and standards encouraging free manners. At the same time, we fight
pro-Western and pro-American political forces on the political arena,"
Tamazyan said, adding that their organization adheres to the principles
preached by Garegin Nzhdeh, a 19th-20th century Armenian statesman,
political thinker and a patriot.
The group said that Poghosyan has characterized their activities as
those of a killer, calling them fascists and racists.
Tamazyan added that the profile has another administrator, Sevak
Kirakosyan, who is affiliated with the gay and lesbian rights center
Pink.
"The post was left by Bayandur, but the page does not deny anything
or make a public apology," he said.
One Nation conducts an active advocacy by disseminating leaflets,
as well as proposing legal initiatives. It has called for declaring
Echmiadzin a religious city state.
From: Baghdasarian