The civic group active in the defense of the Teghout Forest has written a letter to Catholicos Garegin II, urging the Armenian Apostolic Church to take a principled stand in defense of the country’s environment.

The group underlines the fact that one of the missions of the Church must also be to serve as guardian of the environment since it is one of God’s creations.

The activists say that on the eve of Easter, the most important holiday of the Christian church, it would be of great symbolic significance if the Armenian Church pledged its support to those concerned with the future of the motherland.