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Catholic icons and prayer books burned in southern Georgia prayer house

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Catholic icons and prayer books have been burned at a small Orthodox prayer house in the village of Vale, in southern Georgia’s Samktskhe-Javakheti Region. Catholic and Orthodox parishioners have been praying together at the prayer house for years. The incident occurred on Monday at around 18:00. Icons and books next to the prayer wall and inside the prayer house were destroyed. ‘I was walking home with my child when I saw the fire. We discovered that Catholic icons and books were burning

Armenia

Armenia’s Jehovah’s Witnesses: ‘enemies of the state’

by Armine Avetisyan

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Armenian identity is so tightly interwoven with religion that it can often be heard that the only true Armenian is a follower of the Armenian Church. Contempt, discrimination, and outright hatred towards religious minorities have led to a worryingly widespread perception of them as outsiders — a threat to Armenian statehood. Deadly discrimination Anna (not her real name), 45, comes from Gyumri. She used to work as an Armenian language teacher in a local school, but was forced to leave af

Catholicism

Ombudsman: Religious conflicts still unresolved in Georgia

by OC Media

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Georgia’s Public Defender published its annual human rights report for 2016 on 1 April, describing the conditions of various groups in Georgia. According to the report, violence against religious minorities, and unsolved criminal cases into this violence, is a major problem. The report claims that Georgia’s Orthodox Church receives preferential treatment and is offered various advantages that aren’t available to religious minorities. ‘The Patriarchate, unlike other religious confessions,