October 19, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
First known map of night sky found hidden in Medieval parchment. Fabled star catalogue by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been feared lost. A medieval parchment from a monastery in Egypt has yielded a surprising treasure. Hidden beneath Christian texts, scholars have discovered what seems to be part of the …
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September 21, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
An unprecedented finding in a monastery on the island of Crete: 1,152 cannabis plants. Many of them had rosaries on their branches – most likely for a divine blessing for a good harvest…? The plants are estimated to bring one ton of hashish and around 2 million euros revenues when …
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June 8, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A abbot shot and injured a 45-year-old man when the latter asked to be paid for works at the monastery in Oinoi, north-western Attica. The perpetrator was arrested and so was his victim as the first had filed a lawsuit against him. The 45-year-old man had gone to the monastery …
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February 8, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Greek Foreign ministry sharply protested footage showing a Turkish band dancing to electronic music at the historical Greek Orthodox Monastery Sumela in northern Turkey. The Ecumenical Patriarch sent a complaint to Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy where he described the performance as “an …
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October 8, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Three members of a Greek-orthodox fraternity in Thessaloniki have died of coronavirus and a fourth one is in Intensive Care Units. Majority of the 17 nuns are unvaccinated against the Covid-19 and refuse to cooperate with the health authorities. Several nuns in neighboring monastery are also infected with the virus. …
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August 13, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s Civil Protection ordered the closure to public of the Monastery of Agios Nektarios on the island of Aigina after sixteen nuns were tested positive to Covid-19. The Monastery will remain closed to pilgrims for 15 days, from Friday, August 13, until 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 28, 2021, the …
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June 23, 2021
Society, Very Mix
Α priest attacked seven bishops with acid liquid and sent them injured to the hospital. The unprecedented incident took place during a session of the Synodical Court at Petraki Monastery in Athens on Wednesday. Injured are seven bishops, two of them in critical condition, one policeman and one lawyer, both …
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November 20, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
One nun died and another 24 have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in a monastery in Alexandorupolis, north-eastern Greece. The Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin Monastery in Makri was placed under quarantine. One of the nuns reportedly experienced a rapid deterioration of her health condition on Friday and died …
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September 21, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
At least eight confirmed cases of coronavirus were recorded since Sunday night in a single monastery of Mount Athos. Authorities have placed the Monastery of St. Paul in quarantine on Monday morning. While the majority of infected monks has reportedly mild symptoms, one monk was transferred outside the Monk’s Republic …
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July 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A priest in a monastery slammed and insulted an elderly woman for wearing a protection mask during a mass. The monk priest at the Monastery of Agia Paraskevi in Eordea interrupted the divine service to slam the 74-year-old woman for wearing a protective mask. “I don’t want any carnival in …
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April 27, 2020
Arts, Culture
Two precious icons that are allegedly stolen from church and monasteries in Epirus, western Greece, have been auctioned by a private gallery in Europe, local media reported. According to epiruspost, “two of the hundreds of icons stolen from the churches and monasteries of Epirus between 2000 and 2010 were put …
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November 14, 2019
Greece
A monastery will open its gates and host asylum-seekers, single parent families from Syria, consisting of 50-60 women and children. It is one of the two monasteries the Metropolis of Ilia opens for vulnerable groups of refugees. First negative reactions by locals already are being heard. The refugees are expected …
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November 11, 2018
Economy
Technology in the service of Greek Orthodoxy. This must be the ideal e-shop for the Greek Orthodox Christians around the world. Startup Do My Tama offers the possibility that they fulfill their oblation to a saint even if they are far away. Using a user-friendly interface, the Greek Orthodox Christian …
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May 7, 2018
Greece, Politics
“Even the Turks have treated us better than this,” Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias, said expressing his dismay about the attorney representing the Kykkos Monastery before the court in Nicosia on Monday. The monastery has taken the Greek state to court over an 8,000-squater-meter land plot where the Greek state …
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March 21, 2017
Uncategorized
With tears and applause the audience welcomed the decision of an Athens criminal court to acquit all 14 defendants charged in connection with a property swap between the Vatopedi Monastery in the Mount Athos monastic community in northern Greece and the Greek state. The abbot of the Vatopedi monastery, Ephraim, …
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