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Thread: Is Modern Armenia (2016) a Secular Country?

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    Restrictions on religious freedom

    The law places some restrictions on the religious freedom of adherents of minority religious groups, and there were some restrictions in practice.
    The Law on Freedom of Conscience prohibits "proselytizing" but does not define it. The prohibition applies to all groups, including the Armenian Church. Most registered religious groups reported no serious legal impediments to their activities during the reporting period.

    Although the law prohibits foreign funding of foreign-based denominations, the Government did not enforce the ban and considered it unenforceable.

    During the reporting period, the Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists reported that low-level government officials denied them the use of public space for religious gatherings. However, the Jehovah's Witnesses noted that, in general, they were free to assemble without harassment by police or other government entities.

    A customs issue pertaining to the Jehovah's Witnesses ability to obtain shipments of religious literature was not resolved at the end of the reporting period. On March 29, 2007, customs officials in Yerevan reevaluated a shipment of religious periodicals received by the Jehovah's Witnesses at a significantly higher rate than the group expected, making it financially difficult for them to arrange clearance of the shipment. Customs officials maintained that the reevaluation complied with the customs code.

    At the end of the reporting period, the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that following complaints to high-ranking officials, the military commissariat had issued certificates of registration (necessary for obtaining passports) to the majority of a group of Witnesses who had completed prison sentences for conscientious objection to military service.

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    Freedom of expression and of the media

    While the media has a degree of independence, the freedom of press in Armenia is limited. Some independent channels, such as A1+, Noyan Tapan, and Russian NTV, have had their frequencies taken away by the government. Journalists covering a demonstration against President Robert Kocharyan were attacked when police intervened to detain the protestors.

    In January 2011, the Committee to Protect Journalists – international media watchdog – criticized the Armenian government for maintaining a tight grip on the country’s broadcast media and accused them of routinely harassing local journalists challenging them. According to the CPJ report, new amendments to Armenian broadcasting law in 2010 positioned President Sarkisian "to maintain control over the country's docile television and radio stations, most of which were owned by pro-government politicians and businessmen." The report also claims that the Armenian police officers “routinely harassed, assaulted, and arrested journalists” in 2010. “Prosecutors regularly colluded in this practice by failing to investigate police officers, even filing charges on occasion against journalists who protested abuses, CPJ research showed.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Petros Agapetos View Post
    It looks like the Armenian people strongly identify as Christian.
    But I wonder whether the government is secular nonetheless.
    Just watch some Karabakh War Videos, and take note of the crosses painted on Armenian battle tanks, as well as the pious Christian sobriety of Armenians whom fought in the war. Decades of the USSR's atheistic ideology failed to extinguish Armenia's Christian foundation, despite anti-religious Soviet dogma channeled into society. More than 1,700 years of crosses are sprinkled throughout the Armenian Highlands, like wildflower seeds in meadows.

    A multitude of cross-stone grave markers (also known as Katchkars) are a notable example -- Katchkars typically exhibit impressive sculpted crosses engraved into gravestones. It isn't easy to erase, and it serves as a landmark proof of the Armenian historical presence in the homeland. More sinister than neglected church grounds, during Soviet times, is Armenia's hostile neighbors (Turkey and Azerbaijan) whom have endeavored to destroy or erase religious artifacts, churches and monasteries, as documented by film and photographs, in an endeavor to erase Armenia's legacy to the Armenian Highlands (beyond the political boundaries of present day Armenia).

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    Film shows the blessing and consecration of an Armenian Church (1992),
    in Shushi, after it was liberated during the Karabakh War (1988-1994).
    The church chapel was used as an ammunition depot,
    for Azeri Grad Missile Launchers, until it was liberated by Armenians.
    In watching this, the Christian Piety of Armenians is undeniable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Armenian Bishop View Post
    Just watch some Karabakh War Videos, and take note of the crosses painted on Armenian battle tanks, as well as the pious Christian sobriety of Armenians whom fought in the war. Decades of the USSR's atheistic ideology failed to extinguish Armenia's Christian foundation, despite anti-religious Soviet dogma channeled into society. More than 1,700 years of crosses are sprinkled throughout the Armenian Highlands, like wildflower seeds in meadows.

    A multitude of cross-stone grave markers (also known as Katchkars) are a notable example -- Katchkars typically exhibit impressive sculpted crosses engraved into gravestones. It isn't easy to erase, and it serves as a landmark proof of the Armenian historical presence in the homeland. More sinister than neglected church grounds, during Soviet times, is Armenia's hostile neighbors (Turkey and Azerbaijan) whom have endeavored to destroy or erase religious artifacts, churches and monasteries, as documented by film and photographs, in an endeavor to erase Armenia's legacy to the Armenian Highlands (beyond the political boundaries of present day Armenia).
    I am well aware of Turkish and Azeri savagery against our nation.
    What do you think inspires in them so much genocidal hatred for Armenians?
    Do you think Islam has a dominant role to play here?
    Why did they commit the genocide against Armenians, Greek, and Assyrians, etc.?

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    you forgot to add this to your question :

    - Petros Agapetos

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    Quote Originally Posted by Petros Agapetos View Post
    I am well aware of Turkish and Azeri savagery against our nation.
    What do you think inspires in them so much genocidal hatred for Armenians?
    Do you think Islam has a dominant role to play here?
    Why did they commit the genocide against Armenians, Greek, and Assyrians, etc.?
    Well, my point is that the very earth of the Armenian highlands is immersed in Christianity, and its Armenian warrior spirit has been crowned by Christian piety. The Armenian Highlands is covered with Christian artifacts, crosses, churches and monasteries. I went on to say that Turkey and Azerbaijan are responsible for much of the looting, vandalism and destruction of Armenian Christian landmarks and artifacts that lay in historically Armenian regions now controlled by those countries. Therefore, there is less to be seen, in historically Armenian regions controlled by hostile neighbors.

    Turkish and Azeri actions to erase these Christian landmarks and artifacts obliterate the evidence of an historically Armenian legacy, within areas now in their custody. Another words, state managed looting, vandalism, and destruction have constituted premeditated acts of cultural genocide. The genocide against Armenian, Greek and Assyrian minority groups was carried out in an atmosphere of racism and paranoia; it served to fatten the plunderers with loot and real estate, reshape the ethnic makeup of the areas, obliterate Christianity in the region, and build a dominant presence of Turks and Kurds (for a Pan Turkic dream).

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    Quote Originally Posted by All-In View Post
    you forgot to add this to your question :

    - Petros Agapetos
    Yes please DO so I know where NOT to click!!

    (Having this guy on my ignore list is not enough as his threads still can be seen!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by All-In View Post
    you forgot to add this to your question :

    - Petros Agapetos
    Please explain, so that I can laugh too. I got a good clue, but would like to know if I'm on the right track.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Annie999 View Post
    Yes please DO so I know where NOT to click!!

    (Having this guy on my ignore list is not enough as his threads still can be seen!)
    What's so terribly bad about him? Yes, he spits out a lot of posts, and the way he bumps his own threads can be annoying; but, many of his posts are academic and interesting. Would you prefer more "Who's Whiter" threads, more of the "Dames scored by Alphas" threads, or something else of that ilk?

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