The unprecedented campaign against the church in the world's oldest Christian nation: 'It's absurd!'

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Driving towards the ancient Armenian city of Vagharshapat, it is impossible to miss the snow-capped peaks of Mount Ararat dominating the horizon under a cloud-washed azure.

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Set against the backdrop of the "Holy Mountain" — where Noah's Ark is believed to have rested after the Great Flood — lies the rock on which the world's oldest Christian country was built.The Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the mother church of the Armenian Apostolic Church, was constructed in 301 AD, two centuries after two disciples of Jesus — the apostles Jude and Bartholomew — introduced Christianity to the country.

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Armenia is heralded as the first civilisation on Earth to adopt Christianity as a state religion, and despite the country being ruled for most of its existence by a succession of foreign empires — including Persian, Byzantine, Arab, Mongol, Ottoman and Soviet powers — the Church today stands as a spiritual covenant for Armenia's three million inhabitants and 10 million-strong diaspora.Walking into the...

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