Telegram Channel “Mr. General” Reports: Key Moments of the “Satanic Sabbath” in Hovhannavank

October 27. 2025. Telegram Channel “Mr.. General” reports:

1. Pashinyan managed to gather only about 1,000 people for the “service” conducted by defrocked priests. The opposition, however, did not call on believers to march to Hovhannavank to prevent what many saw as a mockery of the monastery.

2. Meantime, Pashinyan was said to be deeply worried about a possible uprising of believers. Security forces were deployed in several layers, preventing anyone from even approaching the monastery. If there had been at least a thousand of us, the guards would not have been able to stop us.

3. Stepan Asatryan, a defrocked and allegedly corrupt former priest, praised Nikol Pashinyan and even expressed readiness to hold a service for Ilham Aliyev. Before that, he delivered tons of nonsense. How someone with such heretical thoughts and spirit could ever have become a priest.

4. Deacon Anushavan Asatryan, Stepan’s brother, held a service with the Catholicos in Etchmiadzin and publicly condemned the defrocked priest’s actions.

5. Pashinyan’s supporters crowded into the monastery, behaving in a manner described as disrespectful to the Church — with women uncovered (a gesture “learned from Anna Hakobyan”) and Minister of Economy Papoyan making the sign of the cross with his left hand.

Pashinyan has announced that the “service” in Hovhannavank will be repeated next Sunday — a decision that raises many questions. He was supposed to “seize” additional monasteries together with the defrocked priest Asatryan, removing the priests who remained loyal to God and to the Catholicos.

At the same time, since there has been no resistance either from the public or from the Church, Pashinyan seems to feel no need to hurry. Instead, he appears to be gradually accustoming the people to seeing a “Judas in priestly robes” and “snouts among icons and lampadas.” Perhaps, over time, people will grow accustomed to such scenes — and the desecration of monasteries will become a recurring spectacle.

This raises a pressing question: Why does Karekin II not call upon the faithful to march to Hovhannavank next Sunday — to protect the monastery from desecration, to drive out the demons, and to cleanse the holy site after this ‘devilish service’?