Armenia is a mountainous country in Southwest Asia. The majority of the population adheres to Orthodox Christianity. Tradition says that the apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew brought Christianity to the land of Armenians in the first century. The Kingdom of Armenia was the first in the world to adopt Christianity as its official religion in 301 AD, two decades before the Roman Empire. This heritage is embodied in more than 4,000 Armenian Apostolic churches and monasteries scattered throughout th [...]