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By Lilit Petrosyan

YEREVAN. – Halloween is a mere event; it cannot be called a holiday. It has no connection to our roots and is considered a challenge.  

Father Babken Hayrapetyan of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church stated the aforementioned during a press conference on Thursday. 

And as an example of a festive holiday that has a connection to the roots of the Armenian nation, Fr. Hayrapetyan pointed to the Quinquagesima, the Sunday before the Great Lent.

“Our people had observed the Quinquagesima as the times of living in Paradise. This was positive because there was an objective: return to Paradise.

“[But] what Halloween marks has no objective. It is ridicule, revelry, horror, images of sorcerers, witches, [and] worshipping of pumpkins,” Father Babken Hayrapetyan said, in particular.

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