AIM: With Armenia's independence, mostly Diaspora institutions have enter a period of reassessment and self-reckoning. Where does the Church stand in this process?
HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN II: In addition to its spiritual and moral mission, the Armenian ecclesiastical authority has, throughout our history, also played a fundamentally national character Ours is a "national" house of god that is to say, an institution that is totally at the service of the nation. Now that we have restoreed our independence, when the Republic of Armenia is in the proces of consolidating its
