Chairwoman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Chair Nadine Maenza has expressed concern over Azerbaijan’s intention to erase Armenian inscriptions from churches. Maenza said, “We urge the government to preserve and protect places of worship and other religious and cultural sites.”
Azerbaijan’s government has announced plans to erase Armenian inscriptions on religious sites in the occupied territories of Artsakh. It justified the move by arguing that the churches were the heritage of Caucasian Albania, an ancient kingdom once located in today’s Azerbaijan. The theory, not supported by mainstream historians, has long been propagated by nationalist Azerbaijani historians and embraced by the current government in Baku.
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