‘Where is the priest?’ Children ask

For more than 100 days, the footsteps of their spiritual leader have not been heard in the yard of Our Lady of Seven Wounds, and children have not received his fatherly blessing.

At Azatani Sunday School, routines remain unchanged: students finish their lessons at school and rush here.

Much has changed since Archbishop Mikayel Ajapahyan’s arrest, including the nature of the questions addressed to their teacher, Goharik. Children simply ask, “Where is the holy father?”, while older students ask a more serious question: “Why was our spiritual leader arrested?”