{"id":269140,"date":"2015-11-10T12:47:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T08:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269140"},"modified":"2015-11-10T12:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T08:49:52","slug":"yazidi-union-urges-armenian-catholicos-to-keep-clergy-in-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/11\/10\/yazidi-union-urges-armenian-catholicos-to-keep-clergy-in-check.html","title":{"rendered":"Yazidi Union Urges Armenian Catholicos to &#8216;Keep Clergy In Check&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Boris Murazi, president of Sinjar Yazidi National Union, has called upon the Araratian Patriarchal Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church to remove Holy Trinity Church priest Father Yessayi Artenian&#39;s following &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qahana.am\/en\/faq\/marriage\/show\/1237447\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">ignorant comments<\/span><\/a>&quot; from Qahana.am:&nbsp;&ldquo;Yazidis worship the sun. In Yazidis&#39; shrines one can see a statue of Satan. They do not believe in Satan, but rather ask him not to harm them.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;This is not only a scientifically ignorant statement, but also a discriminatory attitude&nbsp;towards a specific group of people. Therefore, I urge His Holiness Karekin II <em>(pictured)<\/em> to keep [Father Yessayi Artenian] in check in order to prevent such discrimination in the future. Yazidi religion should not be touched upon by an incompetent person. Father Yessayi casts a shadow on the good name of Armenian Apostolic Holy Church,&rdquo; Murazi&#39;s statement reads.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, in a press statement issued on Monday, Center for Interethnic and Intercultural Cooperation NGO Head Sashik Sultanyan also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/11\/09\/armenian-church-priest-accused-of-having-same-mindset-as-isil-terrorists.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">condemned the priest&#39;s words<\/span><\/a> and urged him to issue a public apology to the Yazidi people for insulting their religious feelings.<\/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>\u201cThis is not only a scientifically ignorant statement, but also a discriminatory attitudes towards a specific group of people. Therefore, I urge His Holiness Karekin II (pictured) to keep [Father Yessayi Artenian] in check in order to&#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":174420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21086,59167,15655,14306,21816,63045,63044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269140"}],"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=269140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}