{"id":115962,"date":"2011-07-25T13:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T08:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=115962"},"modified":"2011-07-25T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T08:23:56","slug":"armenian-apostolic-church-in-need-of-treatment-karapetyan-cites-jehovahs-witnesses-as-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/25\/armenian-apostolic-church-in-need-of-treatment-karapetyan-cites-jehovahs-witnesses-as-example.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Apostolic Church in Need of Treatment: Karapetyan Cites Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses as Example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian Apostolic Church is in need of treatment in terms of serving the nation, Samvel Karapetyan, an expert on monuments, told reporters Monday at a press conference in Yerevan, in which he described an incident that took place last Sunday at the Yeghvard Church (Surb Astvatsatsin).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to note the remarks of Father Hovnan of Yeghvard&#8217;s Surb Astvatsatsin [St. Mary] Church, which is very symbolic, since the entire Armenian Apostolic Church thinks just like this one priest. Fr. Hovnan said, &#8216;We&#8217;re open; let the people come toward us.&#8217; This priest said these words when we were meeting with Yeghvard&#8217;s deputy mayor and the latter was expressing his concerns regarding Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses swarming the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deputy mayor said when they didn&#8217;t have a priest, they definitely wanted there to be a priest in their church, but when we got one, he comes to church once in a blue moon. I told this priest, &#8216;You&#8217;ve waited 1,700 years for these people to come toward you, when will the day come when you take a step toward the people?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses aren&#8217;t waiting for the people to go toward them \u2014 they, with their bags slung over their shoulders, are approaching [the people]; they are out hunting,&#8221; said Karapetyan.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian Apostolic Church is in need of treatment in terms of serving the nation, Samvel Karapetyan, an expert on&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21086,11777,18852,15016],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}