PM and Catholicos Discuss Issues of State Support to Church

RA PRIME MINISTER ANDRANIK MARGARIAN AND CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS
DISCUSS ISSUES OF STATE’S SUPPORT TO CHURCH

YEREVAN, December 3 (Noyan Tapan). Issues regarding the relations and
cooperation between the Church and the State, as well as issues
regarding the available problems of the Church and the State’s
possible support to their resolution were discussed during the
December 1 meeting of RA Prime Minister Andranik Margarian with
Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II. According to the RA
government’s press service, the RA Prime Minister and the Patriarch
also touched upon the problems concerning struggle against the
sectarian religious organizations, the involvement of a representative
of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Jubilee Commission on
Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Creation of the Armenian
Alphabet, as well as participation of the Church in the national
arrangements foreseen in the jubilee year.