Tag: Cyprus

Chrysostomos II, a patron saint for Cyprus

OCP- July 7, 2013

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

OCP- July 7, 2013

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

OCP- June 5, 2013

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

OCP- May 29, 2013

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

OCP- May 17, 2013

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

OCP- May 17, 2013

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

OCP- April 11, 2013

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

OCP- April 3, 2013

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

OCP- April 1, 2013

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

OCP- March 27, 2013

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

OCP- March 24, 2013

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

OCP- March 20, 2013

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

OCP- March 19, 2013

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

OCP- March 19, 2013

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

OCP- February 28, 2013

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

OCP- February 16, 2013

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

OCP- February 7, 2013

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

OCP- February 7, 2013

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

OCP- February 3, 2013

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

OCP- January 25, 2013

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

OCP- January 24, 2013

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