Tag: Greece
His Holiness Aram I Welcomed in Athens
September 2014 Athens: Upon his arrival at the Athens Airport, Catholicos Aram I was met by the representative of the Head of the Church of ... Read More
Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece Asks Russia to Ease Sanctions Against Greece
27/8/14 The Synod has sent a letter to His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. PRAVMIR. The Synod of the Orthodox Church of ... Read More
Ecumenical Patriarch Visits Athens and Cappadocia
June 2014 His All-Holiness in Athens On Tuesday, June 17, 2014, His All-Holiness traveled to Greece, where he attended and offered the keynote address at ... Read More
Greeks Recognized as the Most Religious People in the European Union
75% of Greeks call themselves religious. PRAVMIR. June 20, 2014. A pan-European survey conducted by the Department of Social Research in nineteen European Union countries ... Read More
OCP Society honors Coptic Bishop Anba Paulose of Greece with the Icon of St Gregory of Parumala
Kisha D Dorado – OCP Delegate of Serbia, Balkan and East European Region OCP News Service - 14/5/14 Thessaloniki: The Coptic Orthodox Bishop Anba Paulose ... Read More
Coptic Bishop Anba Paulose of Greece Congratulate OCP Secretary
Kisha D Dorado – OCP Delegate of Serbia, Balkan and East European Region OCP News Service - 14/5/14 Thessaloniki: The Coptic Orthodox Bishop Anba Paulose ... Read More
Samaras Announces Aid Programme at Church Event
Sotiria Nikolouli - May 2014 Speaking at the event entitled “Solidarity, the social work of the Church and the social dimension of EU policies,” the ... Read More
COMPARATIVE LAW – A Conference on Turkey and Modern Greece
May 2014 By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (Boġaziçi University, May 9-10, 2014) Eminent Rector of this esteemed university, Prof. Gülay Barbarosoğlu, Distinguished symposium organizers ... Read More
A Letter to Pope Francis Concerning His Past, the Abysmal State of Papism, and a Plea to Return to Holy Orthodoxy
Pope Francis - The Old Orthodox Bishop of Rome 17/4/14 Read: A Letter to Pope Francis Concerning His Past, the Abysmal State of Papism, and ... Read More
Archbishop of Athens: “Detention of Thousands of People in Israeli Prisons is a Disgrace”
ATHENS, April 5, 2014 – (WAFA) – Primate of the Orthodox Church of Greece and Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos II declared Saturday his support for ... Read More
DOXOLOGY FOR THE 193RD ANNIVERSARY OF 25 MARCH 1821
March- April 2014 - Jerusalem Patriarchate In the morning of Tuesday, 12th/25th of March 2014, Doxology was held at the Katholikon of the All-holy Church of ... Read More
Five Assyrians Fleeing Syria Drown Off the Coast of Greece
By Nuri Kino - 24/3/14 (AINA) -- On Thursday, March 21 a newsflash arrived: Seven migrants, including two children, lost their lives on Tuesday when ... Read More
Announcement Concerning the Union of the Synod in Resistance with the Church of the GOC
Traditional Orthodox Churches - 20/3/14 Union between Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance) with the Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece (GOC) Read more ... Read More
Dačić visits Serbian monastery in Greece
Tanjug February - March 2014 MT. ATHOS -- Ivica Dačić visited the Hilandar monastery at Mt. Athos in Greece and said the spiritual edifice was ... Read More
Holy Gifts of Magi Travel from Greece to Moscow
Iro-Anna Mamakouka - January2014 Within a week, about half a million pilgrims kneeled in front of the Holy Gifts of the Magi which were transferred ... Read More
IOCC Delivers Winter Relief To Greece’s Most Vulnerable
January 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — As snow and nighttime temperatures fall in portions of Greece, the country's most vulnerable – the elderly, people with ... Read More
Standing Holy Synod to Control Church Property
January 2014 With an Amendment brought to Parliament by ministers Yannis Stournaras, Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Michalis Chryssochoidis, all matters relating to the management ... Read More
Hamish McRae: Getting away from it all is fine, but no man is an island
Hamish McRae - 23/12/13 To visit the monasteries on Mount Athos is to step back a thousand years, the closest one can get now to the ... Read More
Religious freedom for all
MUSTAFA AKYOL akyol@mustafaakyol.org - 7/12/13 I have spent the past three days in the German capital, to attend an international conference organized by the Archons, a religious order ... Read More
Hamish McRae: Getting away from it all is fine, but no man is an island
HAMISH MCRAE - 24/11/13 To visit the monasteries on Mount Athos is to step back a thousand years, the closest one can get now to the ... Read More
Greece angered over Turkish Deputy PM’s Hagia Sophia remarks
November 2013 The Greek Foreign Ministry has reacted angrily over a possible conversion of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Museum into a mosque following statements from Turkish ... Read More