The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, received Catholic Communion in St Peter’s Square yesterday, despite not being a Catholic.

The 50-year-old former journalist was attending the canonisations of seven new saints, among them the Armenian Catholic Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan, who was executed during the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

The canonisation drew tens of thousands of pilgrims, clergy and dignitaries to the Vatican, including Armenia’s Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan. Mr Pashinyan, who belongs to the Armenian Apostolic Church rather than the Catholic Church, was seen receiving Holy Communion on the tongue in a reverent manner. …

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