Tag: ATHENS
Protesters attack Greek pride event, hurling eggs, plastic bottles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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