Armenia's Christian Heritage Under Threat

Dearest Dandrew,more than 75% of armenian lands lie in neighboring Georgia,Cold turkey and azeristan.The `soviets` gave away most of these lands,resulting in a genocides and ethnic cleansing of more than 90% of the armenian population there.Now you are talking about lands being given to armenians by Stalin???Can you specify where exactly are the lands Stalin gave the armenians???We all know your penchant for georgian wine,but the georgians are responsible for many armenian churches and monasteries being turned georgian,left in neglect or destroyed.The georgians have also burned and bombed armenian theatres and cultural centers and the word armenian is an insult in Georgia-and georgians are one of the most racist tribes in the region.And we all know your WASP slants are not an excuse for talking turkey on the subject.And we,as Orthodox know that all good people will be saved,but sadly,the NZ anglicans will be not!!!

Ya thats what the Byzantines, wrote which is the other truth, meaning the lie. Why did the Byzantine Emperors use Seljuk Turks against Armenians? For us to drop our church, and join theirs. Georgians drop it and married one of the royals to Trapezous Duchy, the reason Turkish mercenaries were not used against them. What I said above is the untrue version of history that Georgians want to hear so they write it. In those days Armenians and Georgians were in their closest relationship ever because of common threat from Islamic invasion and raids. The Church swaps you are talking about were not agree to because Georgians could not prove the Georgian past, and If Armenian Church has been running a so called Georgian built church for 100's years than it's Armenian. The Churches that Armenians have in Georgia, mostly are not open and are deliberately being destroyed by the state, Azeri's, or Georgians that hate Armenians. And officially there is only one religious organization in Georgia the Georgian Orthodox Church. That is not democracy, it's a half-a**ed one. Pick and chose what suits you and is most advantageous. And they claim about 4 churches. I was born in Georgia and I know their envy of Armenians, that's why my family had to flee the Wars to USA (civil and separatist (in Tbilisi we saw the inflow of Megrels and others that walked through winter to Tbilisi)). Armenian wealthy families were targeted and murdered including infants. One of those crimes was solved last year after almost 20 years, that was my dad friends family. My dads business were set on fire, only Armenian churches bombed (on Sundays, those were obviously Azeri's or Turks, Georgians would not go to that extreme measures, plus there is no money in bombing, just death.)
And on Russian Orthodox Churches priest always tell the Armenian we are going to hell because we don't believe in their version. If officially they don't say something and unofficially they do, is because of the power of the top seat that says that's counter-diplomatic. Georgia has changed a lot under Misha S. but only for economical reasons and very little in human rights, minority, etc. Just for business.

The Georgian Church indeed was not part of the Armenian Church but the Georgians were receiving investiture from the Armenian Patriarch for a long time. The idea that the history of Christianity in Georgia is older is highly controversial. There are indeed churches in Armenia belonging to Armenian Chalkedonites (Orthodox Armenians) - which, in turn, were under the jurisdiction of the Georgian Church in 12-14th centuries - Akhtala, Khuchapi Vank, etc. but there were no Georgians living in Armenia and praying in these churches.

My friend are you a joke? which lands were given to Armenians by Stalin? You learned the history wrong brother. I got nothing against Georgian people.They lived and will live next to each other very peacefully but please do not spread falls information. Armenia is ten time smaller than it used to be.

Really Camel, I know you are a queer chap, but really.
The province of Lori was given to Armenia by Stalin, areas of eastern Georgia to Azerbaijan, and areas of SW Georgia to Turkey. Actually Camel, the Armenians are THE most racist tribe in the region. What other former SSR proudly proclaims that it is 98% "Ethnically pure" like the Armenians do?
http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Georgia/GEORGIA%20DISM%2021-31.jpg

John, the border areas between Georgia and Armenia were ethnically very mixed, there were both Georgians and Armenians living there for the last several hundred years.

However the Armenian SSR conducted a long term ethnic cleansing beginning in the 1920's to remove all non Armenians from the territory of the Armenian SSR

Alex, more rubbish. The Armenian patriarch only claims 5 churches in Georgia, as for Georgians hating Armenians, well I guess you have not been to Avlabari recently. Furthermore, there is only one Church in Armenia, and Armenia is a far more repressive and undemocratic state than Georgian ever has been.

Also Alex, have you heard of the Bagramyan battalion? The one that committed some of the worst crimes of the ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia? They were Armenians, might explain the attitude of Mingrelians towards Armenians in Tbilisi, the refugees from Abkhaza were wrong of course, the Armenians in Abkhazia were the descendants of refugees from the genocide in Turkey that were welcomed by Georgians during the first world war, while the Armenians in Tbilisi had been living there since the late medieval period.

One further point, the President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, has urged Armenians living in Georgia to have the decency to learn Georgian, which he considers would be a better way for them to contribute to their country of citizenship.

Also note, there are Armenian Churches operating in Tbilisi, particularly in Avlabari.