Tag: Cyprus
Chrysostomos II, a patron saint for Cyprus
Fabrice Nodé-Langlois - July 2013 Archbishop Chrysostomos II, leader of the orthodox Church of Cyprus, behaves like a head of a wealthy business empire and wields ... Read More
Christianity in Peril in Turkish Cyprus
Michael Curtis -July 2013 Violence against Christians has become all too frequent in recent years, with attacks on them in a wide variety of countries in ... Read More
Ecumenical Patriarch expresses support to Cyprus
June 2013 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew expressed his unwavering support to Cyprus, wishing that the country will soon overcome the financial difficulties it is currently facing. ... Read More
Church infrastructure projects steaming ahead
29/5/13 PLANS to build a hotel in Paphos on church land, the creation of a photovoltaic park near Nicosia and the construction of a private ... Read More
Church to create new jobs
May - 2013 - CYPRUS PAPHOS – The Church of Cyprus is planning development projects worth millions of euros that will create thousands of jobs, ... Read More
Church urges people to engage in charitable activities
May - 2013 CYPRUS THE COUNTRY’S deep economic difficulties give people the opportunity to engage in charitable activity, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said in his Easter ... Read More
Church ready to pay up for monastery restoration
10/4/13 THE CHURCH of Cyprus is ready to pay to restore the crumbling Apostolos Andreas monastery in the occupied Karpas peninsula, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said ... Read More
Archbishop Demetrios in Aid of Cyprus
Nicky Mariam Onti - 5/4/13 Archbishop of America Demetrios has called a meeting of leading Greek Americans and Cypriot American organizations to discuss the situation in ... Read More
Cyprian Archbishop Calls On Central Bank’s Head, Finance Minister To Resign
By VOR - 1/4/13 The head of Cyprus’s Orthodox Christian Church Archbishop Chrysostom II has called on the Chairman of the country’s Central Bank Panikos Dimitriadis ... Read More
In Cyprus financial crisis, even Orthodox Church could lose millions
By Roy Gutman -McClatchy Newspapers 27/3/13 The Cypriot government has agreed to force bank-account holders to help pay for the rescue of debt-ridden banks, but who actually ... Read More
Head of Orthodox Church in Cyprus favors leaving eurozone
24/3/13 The head of the powerful Orthodox Church in Cyprus says he prefers the debt-stricken nation to leave the euro as Nicosia is striving to ... Read More
Orthodox Church in Cyprus offers assets to aid crisis
20/3/13 The head of Cyprus's influential Orthodox Church says he will put the church's assets at the country's disposal to help pull it out of ... Read More
Cyprus Church: EU bailout offensive
19/3/13 Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church on the island, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, described the Europeans stance at the Eurogroup on Cyprus as “offensive". Speaking ... Read More
Decades-old Church-state land deal almost closed
15/3/13 Cyprus: THE CHURCH will soon be transferring tracts of land to the state, bringing to a close a deal struck some 40 years ago. ... Read More
Messiah College professor goes in search of Barnabas
This church is part of the Monastery of Apostle Barnabas complex near Salamis, Cyprus. Turkish authorities will not allow Orthodox Christians to hold sacred liturgy ... Read More
Malas pledges to work with Church
Stefanos Evripidou - 13/2/13 THE AKEL-backed presidential candidate Stavros Malas yesterday pledged to work with the Church of Cyprus in forming policies to tackle the ... Read More
Historic day for Apostolos Andreas
February 2013 RESTORATION WORK on the dilapidated monastery of Apostolos Andreas in the Karpas peninsula will finally begin after an agreement was signed yesterday between ... Read More
Illegal Lease of Armenian Church in Occupied Cyprus Revoked
7/2/13 NICOSIA—Officials at Near East University in Occupied Cyprus announced that they were backtracking from the illegal lease of the historic 14th St. Mary’s Church ... Read More
A triumph of bicommunal collaboration
Stefanos Evripidou - 2/2/13 REACHING AGREEMENT on restoration work for the decaying monastery of Apostolos Andreas in the Karpas peninsular was a triumph of bicommunal ... Read More
Gov’t asks Cyprus church to help secure Russian loan
FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE - 24/1/13 THE CYPRUS government appears to be seeking divine intervention in times of distress and has asked the head of the church ... Read More
Father of modern Cypriot theatre dies
24/1/13 PHIVOS Moussoulides, former diplomat, and co-founder of the Lyriko theatre in 1942, and of the first professional theatre group in Cyprus, died on Wednesday ... Read More