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GEORGIAN-ARMENIAN DIOCESE CALL FOR RETURN OF CHURCHES
12:34 * 14.01.15
The Georgian-Armenian Diocese demanded the return of 442 churches
after conducting a study into pre-Soviet archives.
It has submitted a comprehensive report to a government agency
responsible for religious issues, Armenpress reports.
Speaking to the state news agency, a spokesperson for the
Georgian-Armenian diocese, Susanna Khachatryan, said that an earlier
list, submitted by the Georgian Government, included only the
functioning churches.
"This list includes all the Armenian churches in Georgia, the
functioning and bending ones and those that have been reduced to ruins
or Georgianized. The diocese in that way demands the return of its
own property considering that the present-day Georgian state is the
Soviet Georgia's successor. Churches are destroyed and ruined. Time
leaves their imprint on them, so if no measures are taken for those
constructions' perseveration, there will be no more churches in several
years," Khachatryan said, expressing hope for a positive solution.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/01/14/virahayoc/1558702
From: A. Papazian
12:34 * 14.01.15
The Georgian-Armenian Diocese demanded the return of 442 churches
after conducting a study into pre-Soviet archives.
It has submitted a comprehensive report to a government agency
responsible for religious issues, Armenpress reports.
Speaking to the state news agency, a spokesperson for the
Georgian-Armenian diocese, Susanna Khachatryan, said that an earlier
list, submitted by the Georgian Government, included only the
functioning churches.
"This list includes all the Armenian churches in Georgia, the
functioning and bending ones and those that have been reduced to ruins
or Georgianized. The diocese in that way demands the return of its
own property considering that the present-day Georgian state is the
Soviet Georgia's successor. Churches are destroyed and ruined. Time
leaves their imprint on them, so if no measures are taken for those
constructions' perseveration, there will be no more churches in several
years," Khachatryan said, expressing hope for a positive solution.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/01/14/virahayoc/1558702
From: A. Papazian