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WASHINGTON — The recent arrests of senior church leaders in the world’s first Christian nation are effectively silencing clergy from one of the world’s oldest churches and could hinder Armenia’s growing relationship with the United States, human rights experts warned in a bid to raise the awareness of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

More than three months after a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan was signed at the White House, legal experts and representatives from Christian advocacy organizations spoke during a briefing last Thursday sponsored by the National Democratic Alliance, which classifies itself as an Armenian pro-Western, center-right political party.

Tensions between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and leaders of the Armenian Apostolic Church, an ecclesias

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