Tag: Greek Church

Council of Hierarchy of the Church of Greece and the Ukrainian Orthodox Schism

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- June 23, 2019

https://www.pexels.com Jelena Rakocevic - Specialist in Eastern Orthodox Affairs - OCP News Service- 23/6/19 The Phanar masterminded the conflict in the newly-established Autocephalous Church of ... Read More

GREEK PRIME MINISTER TO INITIATE PROCESS OF SEPARATION OF CHURCH FROM STATE

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- June 27, 2018

Photo: rua.gr Orthochristian.com - 27/6/18 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras intends to initiate the process of separating the Greek Orthodox Church from the Greek state and ... Read More

GREEK TRANSGENDER LAW IS “CRIME BEFORE GOD”—MET. HILARION

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- October 23, 2017

Orthochristian.com - 23/10/17 The new law allowing even 15-year-olds to legally change their gender, recently adopted by the Greek Parliament on October 10, is a “crime before God ... Read More

Refutation to the Absurd Accusations of Mr. Nikolla Marku

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- September 12, 2017

The Albanian Orthodox Church - 12/9/17 On August 26, 2017 several media portals broadcasted an "exclusive" interview with the self-proclaimed priest of the church of ... Read More

DISPUTED ATHONITE STATEMENT ON CRETE COUNCIL SPARKS CONTROVERSY

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 10, 2017

Photo: dailymail.co.uk Pravoslavie.ru - 10/8/17 A group of representatives from each of the 20 Athonite monasteries met recently to respond to the unrest that has ... Read More

BULGARIAN CHURCH REASSERTS REJECTION OF CRETE COUNCIL

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 23, 2016

http://www.pravmir.com/ Pravoslavie.ru - November 2016 Meeting last week, the Holy Synod of the Church of Bulgaria came to a conclusion on the Council of Crete ... Read More

PRIMATE OF GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: PLAN FOR DE-CHRISTIANIZING EUROPE BEING REALIZED IN BRUSSELS

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 1, 2016

Pravoslavie.ru - 11/1/16 Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens visited the small border island of St. Eustratius. Addressing the locals, the primate of the Greek Church said: “In ... Read More

UNION OF ORTHODOX CLERGY AND MONKS OF GREECE: CRETE COUNCIL NOT A REAL COUNCIL

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- July 4, 2016

Pravoslavie.ru - July 2016 Agionoros.ru has published the main provisions of an open letter signed by the well-known Greek pastors, monastics, and theologians. The authoritative Greek ... Read More

METROPOLITAN HIEROTHEOS OF NAFPATKOS DESCRIBES PROBLEMS WITH DOCUMENTS ADOPTED ON CRETE

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- July 2, 2016

Pravoslavie.ru - July 206 As earlier reported, one well-known contemporary theologian, Met. Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpatkos, was among those participants of the Council on Crete who ... Read More

Court fines journalist who slandered Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi

OCP- January 15, 2014

January 2014 On January 10, the Romphea Greek Church agency reported the judicial decision of the first instance court of the city of Athens on ... Read More

Standing Holy Synod to Control Church Property

OCP- January 8, 2014

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

Greek Church Goes Digital

OCP- December 30, 2013

Nikoleta Kalmouki - December 2013 One would say that the Greek Orthodox Church is rather conservative and doesn’t keep pace with technology, but it appears that ... Read More

Greek Church Interferes with School Book Contexts

OCP- November 17, 2013

17/11/13 The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church decided to interfere with school book contexts, and the Ministry of Education requested an appointment between ... Read More

Christian’s under fire in Libya

OCP- September 17, 2012

Historic St George Church in Tripoli International News Desk 17/9/2012 Christian's in the Middle East are under attack in a new wave attacks perpetrated by ... Read More

Head of Greek Church says austerity is ‘deadly medicine’

OCP- February 4, 2012

4/2/2012 Archbishop Ieronymos, the head of the Church of Greece, has taken the rare step of writing to Prime Minister Lucas Papademos to express serious ... Read More

Greek Church Promises To Boost Charity Meals as Poverty Deepens

OCP- December 23, 2011

23/12/2011 Emmanouela Seiradaki The leader of Greece’s Orthodox Church on Thursday promised to boost its campaign to provide free meals to the poor and homeless, ... 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

Greek Church Warns Of ‘Tsunami Of Poverty’

OCP- August 27, 2011

26/8/2011 Greece will face a desperate situation this autumn, with a wave of poverty stemming from its crippled economy, a spokesman for the Orthodox Church ... Read More

Greek Church to Sue Port Authority Over Land for Rebuilding

OCP- December 29, 2010

By Matt Dunning 28/12/2010 Greek Church to Sue Port Authority Over Funding and Land for Rebuilding Leaders of the tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, ... Read More

Greek Church Denounces “Country Governed by IMF”

OCP- December 18, 2010

By Apostolos Papapostolou 17/12/2010 The Orthodox Church has denounced the lack of leadership and the moral sense that, by means of the crisis, has made ... Read More