Three priests leave for Austria. Strong reaction from CCAF. Protest in United States. Alpha Newsroom 02/16/26

Today in Alpha Newsroom:

🔹Three bishops from Armenia have left for Austria to participate in the Episcopal Assembly

🔹The Catholicos of All Armenians has been banned from leaving Armenia

🔹 Message from Catholicos Karekin II regarding national issues and attacks against the Church

🔹 The Mother See condemns the criminal prosecution against the Catholicos of All Armenians

🔹 Our bishops will gather in Austria; the Episcopal Assembly will be held in the absence of the Catholicos – Archbishop Nathan

🔹 The CCAF condemned Pashinyan’s campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church

🔹 Protest in the US in defense of the Church and the Catholicos

🔹 The content of the video attributed to Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan was fabricated using specialized software

🔹 Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan will be discharged from Izmirlian Medical Center and transferred to Gyumri

🔹 Aliyev accused Russia of deliberately striking Azerbaijan’s embassy

🔹 Moscow warns: EU membership is incompatible with the Eurasian Economic Union

🔹 Narek Karapetyan will head the “Strong Armenia” party’s list in the upcoming parliamentary elections

🔹 The calculation was based on debts, but the Russian side announced it would start immediately – Poghosyan on the railway situation

🔹 Alexey Anpilogov on the US proposal to build modular nuclear power plants

🔹 Russia is still observing – political strategist Pavel Dubravskiy on Vance’s visit to Armenia and Azerbaijan

🔹Under opposing demands, it is hard to imagine a quick agreement – Iranologist

🔹Aliyev does not want peace; the constitutional issue is just a pretext – Igityan