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The Holy Synod of the Greek Church unanimously rejected on Thursday the government bill on the marriage and parenthood by same-sex couples. The Greek Church is categorically against marriage and parenthood of same-sex couples and the bill it calls “mine-laden”claiming that “this new reality will alter the social cohesion of …

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Unbelievably obscurantist statements by a Greek high-ranking clergyman, the Bishop of Dodoni Chrysostomos: “No woman is raped without consent” and “abortion should not be performed even in the case of rape.” The inadmissible statements triggered an outrage not only among the Greek society but also among ministers of the conservative government. …

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The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece has issued a circular calling on priests and the faithful to get vaccinated against Covid-19, to wear masks and keep safety distances in churches to contain the spread of coronavirus. Ιt also calls on unvaccinated faithful to go to churches after they …

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Two bishops have been summoned to the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece for disobeying and disrespecting decisions reagrding the Covid-19 measures during the Easter times. Bishop of Kythera Seraphim and Bishop of Aitolia Kosmas will have to explain themselves over their “disobedience and disrespect of the unanimous decision …

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The Greek state will come up for the cost of non-cleric personnel working at facilities of the Church of Greece, the Holy Synod revealed on Tuesday. What is interesting is that news came from the Holy Synod and not from the government or the conservative Prime Minister’s office who was …

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The Church of Greece is revolting against the conservative Government and defies the ban of religious services in the presence of faithful on Epiphany on January 6. In a meeting on Monday, the Holy Synod decided to open the churches to believers despite the ban aiming to prohibit the spread …

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The Church of Greece does not seem willing to comply with the rules of the state and it plans to perform religious processions in the month of August despite their suspension by the Civil Protection. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece recalled …

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And suddenly amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece issued a statement condemning the Yoga, stressing that it has no place in the lives of Christians.” At the same time, the Holy Synod targeted the Rotary Club and the Lions and urged its cleric to …

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The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Greece has decided to take a clear position on abortion;  an issue that has triggered uproar among the Greek society in recent weeks. In a statement issued on Tuesday, country’s top clergy stated that “abortion is murder.” “The Holy Synod took into …

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The Council of State (CoS) has rejected an appeal by the Orthodox Church of Greece requesting that it be excluded from paying taxes on income generated from the leasing of properties in urban areas. The Church had requested a return of 2.9 million euros in taxes paid for income generated …

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No a single priest, no a single icon. It has been the first time that cabinet ministers took an oath in the absolute absence of the Greek clergy. All the new ministers appointed after the mini government reshuffle on Wednesday had decided they would take a political “oath”  and refrained …

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The Church of Greece will officially participate in the protest rally on Macedonia name for the Former Republic of Macedonia. “The church will support the protest rally provided it is peaceful and without political or party affiliations,” the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos II, said …

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A war broke out between the Greek government and the Church of Greece after the latter expressed its objection for the use of term “Macedonia” in the under negotiation name of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Government officials compared the stance of the Church with this of far-right Golden …

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The leader of the Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos, said that the Church cannot remain indifferent to the name dispute of Macedonia. The Church of Greece vehemently rejects the term “Macedonia” as part of a component of the name of Former Yugoslavic Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Ieronymo0us intervention comes …

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In the name of God, of faith and of transparency…  On the occasion of approving the finances report for the year 2015, the Holy Synod of the Greek Church issued a statement concerning the Revenues and Expenses for the management year 2015. The statement includes also the payments by the …

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I would never thought that the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece would care about …shoes. But this is exactly what happened! Because a shoe-manufacturer brought to the market shoes bearing the symbol of the Holy Cross on their soles. In a statement the Holy Synod of the Church …

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Left-wing SYRIZA lawmaker Tasos Kourakis made a ‘revolutionary proposal’: that clerics’ wages should be funded not by the state but by those who declare themselves to be Christian orthodox and thus through a special tax similar in other European countries like Germany. The funding scheme was proposed by Kourakis in …

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A sharp increase in free meals demand by Greeks has been recorded by the Church  in recent months. Father Chrysostomos Symeonidis from the  Charitable Service of Church of Greece told news portal Capital that since last September the number of Greeks seeking free meals distributed by the Church has been dramatically increased. “While last year …

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