Armenian Church Urged To Be More Active Against ‘Sects

Naira Bulghadarian 03.08.2011 A senior government official urged the Armenian Apostolic Church on Wednesday to be more active in countering the spread of non-traditional religious organizations in the country, which is seen by many in Armenia as a threat to national unity. “I think that our church really could have been more active,” said Vartan Astsatrian, head of a government department on religious and ethnic minorities. “For instance, they could have examined in which areas those religious organizations are more active and tried to take over those areas,” Astsatrian told a news conference.