‘Is Spitting on People Not Streetwise? Will the Church Not Triumph Over the Street?’ - Bagrat Bishop

This movement represents all colors and carries the essence of the white, pure, and tricolor. There are people with such contrasts.

This is what the Primate of the Tavush Diocese, Bagrat Bishop, said in a conversation with journalists. “It is written that the tricolor will prevail over black and white; do you want it to win? Then let’s go with our tricolor. The beauty lies in the fact that various organizations and parties that used to have opposing ideologies and orientations in time now find themselves together here,” he noted.

According to Bagrat Bishop, people woke up in the morning and wrote about certain values, suddenly remembering that such values exist. “This movement is about peace; it is not about hatred and enmity. Whatever happens during this process will happen; I know one thing—the truth will prevail. The Apostle says that troubles and bonds are nothing to us when we speak of truth and justice. Our Lord says, ‘Whoever endures will have life,’” he stated.

In response to a journalist’s remark that Prime Minister Pashinyan was angered by the statement that the church would triumph over the street, the Bishop emphasized: “Well, they are in the street; they have not come home from the street, they remain in the street. Do you see their vocabulary and way of speaking? For example, is the expression of licking the curb not streetwise? Is spitting on people not streetwise? Then will the church not triumph over that street?”