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Armenia's prayer breakfast draws critics amid tensions between prime minister, church leaders

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More than 300 faith, business and political leaders have convened for a national prayer breakfast in the world's oldest Christian nation amid ongoing tensions between the Armenian Apostolic Church and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who is scheduled to speak at the event.

With proceedings taking place on Friday and Saturday in Yerevan, the first-ever Republic of Armenia Prayer Breakfast is initiated and organized by Armenian civil society leaders, with "the support and participation" of Pashinyan, a former journalist who rose to power in 2018 after a wave of pro-democracy protests.

Although the event's purpose is to renew the country's "spiritual foundations and affirm its traditional Christian values," it does not come without its critics as the country gears up for the June 2026 election.

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Have you noticed that there is a rising tension and even conflict in a wide range of nations across the world that is homing in on religious belief and specifically Christian.

That religious belief should become an issue for elections. That belonging to the church is a problem politically. That more and more people are specifically mentioning and using religion and specifically Christianity in the context of it being a problem to exist in modern society.

Is this because perhaps Christian belief is being contrasted to world ideologies and dark forces that fundementally hate Christ. Or is this a natural progression of politics or how the world has evolved into identity politics. Or maybe a bit of both.

Or maybe the politics has become personal and thus has to include beliefs. Maybe its always been about beliefs and how the world should be ordered under the various human made ideas. As opposed to God. Its just that now its coming out as a spiritual battle that was always going to happen. People are actually expressing their hate for Christians. When they express hate for opposing beliefs they are actually meaning Christians and Christ.
 
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