{"id":64092,"date":"2011-02-08T20:16:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T16:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=64092"},"modified":"2011-02-08T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T16:18:47","slug":"etchmiadzin-to-consider-case-of-armenian-bulgarian-priest-visiting-night-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/08\/etchmiadzin-to-consider-case-of-armenian-bulgarian-priest-visiting-night-clubs.html","title":{"rendered":"Etchmiadzin to Consider Case of Armenian-Bulgarian Priest Visiting Night Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin has invited Father Sarkis Hovhannisian, the pastor of the Armenian Apostolic Church serving the Armenian community in the Bulgarian city of Varna, for a talk, though the latter has not yet presented himself since he is currently healing, His Holiness&#8217; press spokesperson Father Vahram told Epress.am.<\/p>\n<p>Father Vahram also noted that they receiving written notice about the incident involving Father Sarkis from the Bulgaria diocese in Nov. 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will keep an eye [on the situation], and after the talk and examining the case, we will be able to make a decision,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Note in Aug. 2010, a number of Bulgaria-based newspapers and websites published stories on a &#8220;scandal&#8221; involving the priest.<\/p>\n<p>On Jul. 31, Fr. Sarkis was attacked in the well-known nightclub Arrogance at the Golden Sands resort in Varna. On his way to the washroom, a few people attacked him with blows to the head, which resulted in an injury in Fr. Sarkis&#8217; right eye. He was admitted at a local hospital for emergency surgery; for a long time, there was the threat of permanent blindness in that eye.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Epress.am, members of Bulgaria&#8217;s Armenian community expressed their discontent that Fr. Sarkis continued to maintain his position in the Varna church.<\/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 Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin has invited Father Sarkis Hovhannisian, the pastor of the Armenian Apostolic Church serving the Armenian community in the&#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":64050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19679,12193,21462,21463,21464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64092"}],"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=64092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}