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REVEREND MICHAELYAN. "THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH THROUGHOUT EUROPE WOULD BE REPROACHED, DO YOU WANT IT?"
November 15 2013
"Tearing up from 4 sides is going on. It is a hard time for the
Apostolic Church, today. I do not know why many people think that the
church should act as self-defense. It is a wrong position. Yes, there
is a mistake, but we have to be next to them, the Armenian nation,
to be able to resolve every issue. We must support the church, and not
take a stance and say, they must do this, they must do that. What shall
we do? The church is for people, isn't it? The church is the people,
not just the Catholicos. Imagine there's no man in the church, will
there be a Catholicos? Whom is the Catholicos for? For the people." -
so commented Rev. Armen Mikaelyan, Head of Aragatsotn office of the
Armenian Missionary Association, pastor of the Armenian Evangelical
Church, in the conversation with Aravot.am with regard to the criticism
to the Catholicos. According to him, people should have a respectful
attitude toward the Catholicos and the clergymen, in general, "On
seeing mistakes, it should not bring charges. The Apostolic church
is not a power structure. Yes, we have given a lot into their own
hands, we have given, and we require, but it does not have a serious
leverage over Missionary, Evangelical, Jehovah's Witnesses or over
the other one. Today, I have a more powerful lever than the apostolic
church. Today, I can speak freely, to blame, but it has no right to
do so. If it blames, the relevant European Commission will come and
they will answer for it. They have signed agreements...
this is complicated, do you understand? We are a church of the
21st century. And you should clearly realize that there is Venice,
the Venice Commission, there are committees, there is a signature,
there is Europe. Even if they oppose to many things, they can not. Of
course, they can not. This should be gradually, it is not a daily
thing. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, if the Apostolic church
did not make a reasonable step, the Apostolic Church in all over
the Europe, all over the world will be blamed, do you want it?" To
our question, in other words, we must not talk about mistakes, not
to voice them to avoid diminishing the role of our church in the
international arena, he replied, "Indeed, we need to remain in the
international role and move our righteousness and justice forward."
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/11/15/162557/
November 15 2013
"Tearing up from 4 sides is going on. It is a hard time for the
Apostolic Church, today. I do not know why many people think that the
church should act as self-defense. It is a wrong position. Yes, there
is a mistake, but we have to be next to them, the Armenian nation,
to be able to resolve every issue. We must support the church, and not
take a stance and say, they must do this, they must do that. What shall
we do? The church is for people, isn't it? The church is the people,
not just the Catholicos. Imagine there's no man in the church, will
there be a Catholicos? Whom is the Catholicos for? For the people." -
so commented Rev. Armen Mikaelyan, Head of Aragatsotn office of the
Armenian Missionary Association, pastor of the Armenian Evangelical
Church, in the conversation with Aravot.am with regard to the criticism
to the Catholicos. According to him, people should have a respectful
attitude toward the Catholicos and the clergymen, in general, "On
seeing mistakes, it should not bring charges. The Apostolic church
is not a power structure. Yes, we have given a lot into their own
hands, we have given, and we require, but it does not have a serious
leverage over Missionary, Evangelical, Jehovah's Witnesses or over
the other one. Today, I have a more powerful lever than the apostolic
church. Today, I can speak freely, to blame, but it has no right to
do so. If it blames, the relevant European Commission will come and
they will answer for it. They have signed agreements...
this is complicated, do you understand? We are a church of the
21st century. And you should clearly realize that there is Venice,
the Venice Commission, there are committees, there is a signature,
there is Europe. Even if they oppose to many things, they can not. Of
course, they can not. This should be gradually, it is not a daily
thing. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, if the Apostolic church
did not make a reasonable step, the Apostolic Church in all over
the Europe, all over the world will be blamed, do you want it?" To
our question, in other words, we must not talk about mistakes, not
to voice them to avoid diminishing the role of our church in the
international arena, he replied, "Indeed, we need to remain in the
international role and move our righteousness and justice forward."
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/11/15/162557/