In recent months, tensions between the government and the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), its independent national church, ...

‘With great joy, we are walking together on a journey that has already taken us far,’ the Holy Father declared today at an ecumenical meeting in Yerevan, Armenia. Pope Francis and Catholicos Karekin ...

As Turkish president Erdoğan joins hundreds in celebration, Christians in the diaspora mourn their lost homeland and cultural heritage. Declared a mosque in principle, Hagia Sophia is now a mosque in ...

Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II (holding Cross) praying at the Assyrian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia. The primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Syrian Orthodox ...

This story appears in the Francis in Armenia feature series. View the full series. Pope Francis embraces Catholicos Karekin II, patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, during a 2015 Mass in St.

Working toward full communion is a project of love, humility and peace, Pope Francis told Armenian Orthodox leaders gathered at an ecumenical meeting on Saturday. "With great joy, we are walking ...