Armenia was the last country where one could imagine an imprisoned archbishop. Joel Veldkamp

A religious media outlet published an article titled “Visiting an Armenian Archbishop in Prison” by Joel Veldkamp, ​​the public outreach director for Christian Solidarity International. The international observer describes his visit to Armenia as part of a group working to protect the rights of persecuted Christians and his meeting with Archbishop Bagrat in prison. He noted in the article that Pashinyan has resorted to old Soviet methods. He has assembled a group of rebel bishops who are calling for “reform” of the church, much as the Bolsheviks used a group of “free church” clergy in the 1920s to foment division.