Tag: ATHENS

Protesters attack Greek pride event, hurling eggs, plastic bottles

OCP- June 26, 2012

24/6/2012 ATHENS — Dozens of protesters on Saturday interrupted a Pride event in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, hurling eggs and plastic bottles of ... Read More

We are no tax cheats, says Church of Greece

OCP- February 23, 2012

AFP 23/2/2012 ATHENS - The Church of Greece denied media reports accusing it of tax evasion on Wednesday, saying the total amount of taxes paid ... Read More

AT DINNER WITH THE HOMELESS IN ATHENS, GREECE

OCP- January 28, 2012

By Diana Farr Louis Huffington Post 27 / 01 / 2012 Like the other dilapidated houses on the block next to the train tracks, the ... Read More

Greek church protests pre-trial detention of Abbot Efraim

OCP- January 13, 2012

ATHENS,(RIA Novosti) 12/1/2012 The autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece has called for the release of Abbot Efraim, the head of the Vatopedi Monastery in Mount ... Read More

Christmas tree missing in gloomy Athens

OCP- December 28, 2011

PHILIP PANGALOS, ATHENS From: The Times 28/12/2011 IN a sign of the increasingly gloomy times in austerity-stricken Greece there was no traditional Christmas tree in ... Read More

Papandreou Wants Church to Pay More

OCP- October 8, 2011

Andy Dabilis 8/10/2011 ATHENS – Stung by criticism it is exempt from a new property tax being imposed on Greek citizens and has largely escaped ... Read More

HIS BEATITUDE MEETS WITH HIS BEATITUDE THE ARCHBISHOP OF ATHENS

OCP- July 15, 2011

14/7/2011 At noon on Thursday 14th July 2011, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa visited His Beatitude Ieronymos, Archbishop ... Read More

Greek protesters decry ‘mark of the beast’ ID Cards

OCP- February 7, 2011

The Associated Press 6/2/2011 ATHENS — More than 2,000 Orthodox Christian fundamentalists have gathered at Syntagma Square in central Athens to protest at a government ... Read More

Greek church raps bishop over Muslim, Jew Remarks

OCP- January 13, 2011

The Associated Press 12/1/2011 ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's Orthodox church has rejected disparaging comments about Muslims and Jews by a senior cleric that sparked protests ... Read More

Greece probes Orthodox church real estate Deal

OCP- August 12, 2010

11/8/2010 ATHENS - Agence France-Presse Judicial authorities in Greece are looking into the sale of prime Orthodox Church property near Athens that revived memories of ... Read More

HIS BEATITUDE RECEIVES AWARD FROM THE PREFECTURE OF ATHENS

OCP- March 22, 2009

His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, was honoured on 5th March 2009 by the Prefecture of Athens, within the ... Read More