It is possible to put the brakes on the collapse
17.10
2025
Under the cover of an unrelenting campaign against the spiritual leadership of the Armenian Church, Armenia’s political authorities are, in fact, waging an ideological offensive against the Church’s system and philosophy.
The foundation notes that illegal and fabricated criminal cases, persecutions, and sham court rulings against Patriarchs Bagrat, Mikayel, and Mkrtich, as well as dozens of clergy, demonstrate that the authorities’ goal is the dismantling of the Armenian Church’s institutional structure.
Secular principles have been violated, constitutional requirements for separation of powers ignored, and the judiciary has become subservient to the arbitrary will of a single individual. State security institutions are unstable, lack restraint and political neutrality, and instead reinforce the government-imposed barricades between state and citizen while being ready to use massive physical force.
This government, struggling to maintain its power, having long since lost its political legitimacy and image, and experiencing a devastating crisis of unprincipledness, is capable of any anti-democratic step, even ruthless repression against its own people. Nikol Pashinyan’s government views the public as a “threat,” and neutralizing it has become a matter of national security for itself and the ruling clique.
The government has declared national institutions and symbols as enemies and is keeping the public in an immoral atmosphere of fear.
Armenia is rolling unhindered into a dangerous phase, which will inevitably lead to the collapse of the state. It is possible to put the brakes on the collapse. The parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition, all pro-national and progressive political units and individuals in Armenia and the Diaspora have one agenda: how to stop the collapse of the Armenian statehood and national identity system, and how to prevent the possibilities of this stateless power from reproducing.
The Armenian public environment, unfortunately, has become a testing ground for the manifestation of various perverse ideologies, anti-national global trends, and manipulative pacifism illusions, which is fertile ground for the weakening of national potential and the rooting of intra-Armenian hostility. The psychology of the defeated in a post-war country can be transformed only by an Armenian with a vision and program for progress, who, regardless of his religious perceptions and convictions, should these days flood the courtyards of Armenian churches in Armenia and the Diaspora and tacitly support the preservation of the unity of the church that has fought for centuries for its national identity.
We condemn all manifestations of repression by the Armenian authorities, and we support our secular and clerical compatriots who have been illegally detained or deprived of their liberty for political reasons.
