July 15, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Police on Rhodes have arrested a 49-year-old priest on suspicion of insulting the sexual dignity of a 30-υear-old tourist from Esthonia, who said the cleric had “anointed” his genitals with holy oil. According to local newspaper dimokratiki, the tourist said he had visited a monastery with a female companion in …
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June 7, 2023
FEATURED, Lifestyle, Society
A Greek Orthodox priest in Athens was suspended and banned from practicing sacraments because he had two girls to serve in the altar in his church. A move that caused outrage in conservative circles. It was the very first time that a priest of the Archdiocese of Athens placed two …
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December 5, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A priest has been charged with fraud in the city of Trikala, in central Greece, for obtaining significant amounts of money in donations that would supposedly benefit a young man with health issues. Police say that two bank accounts in which people were asked to diposit money contained €12,922.50. They …
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October 20, 2022
Social, Society
A priest of Athens was rushed to the hospital on Thursday as people close to him found him passed out at his home. According to information from the church issues website, ekklisiaonline.gr, the name of the priest was involved in the scandalous case of the 12-year-old girl that was forced …
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April 19, 2022
Social, Society
With vulgar comments and in outrage a priest in a suburb of southern Athens denied a transgender woman with financial problems to get meals from the parish soup kitchen. The woman had been going to the soup kitchen of a parish in Kallithea suburb for the last two weeks, when …
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March 27, 2022
animals, FEATURED
In an unprecedentedly shameful sermon, a priest in a village of Pieria, central Macedonia, urged the faithful who keep dogs as guardians to poison them. Furthermore, he told the shocked congregation that dog owners should not go to church or received the blessed bread which is distributed after the Divide …
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January 21, 2022
Social, Society
Α priest was arrested in Athens for the sexual abuse of a minor and possession on child pornography. The 37-year-old father of three was arrested after the victim revealed to her parents the torture she was exposed to for a period of six months and her parents went to police. …
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December 5, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday. “Pope, you are a heretic!” the priest shouted three times before police intervened and took him away. The Pope had arrived for a meeting with the head of the country’s Orthodox Church, evidence of the lingering distrust between …
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September 17, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A public prosecutor in Thessaloniki has opened an investigation against a priest who is allegedly advising church goers not to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The inquiry opened after a local news website reported on the priest, whome the parishioners denounced a “anti-vaxxer.” Citing local parishioners and residents, the story reports …
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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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June 2, 2021
animals, FEATURED
Police has arrested a retired priest for killing a kitten with a metal stick and dumping it in a bag into a trash bin. The 88-year-old man known in the local community of Volos faces felony charges and an administrative fine of 30,000 euros. While in police station, the man …
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May 5, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A priest in Halkidiki, northern Greece, warned those who have been vaccinated, had Covid-19 self test or wear a mask that he does not want them to attend services in the church. He went so far even to claim that these protection measures are dictated by the satan. In the …
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November 1, 2020
Very Mix
French authorities who arrested a suspect for the shooting at a Greek-Orthodox priest in a church in Lyon, released him on Sunday afternoon, the prosecutor’s office announced. “There is no evidence” that this man was involved in the shooting of Nikolas Kakavelakis, the prosecutor’s office said adding that his state …
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September 19, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
A priest in Rethymno, Crete, was sentenced to nine months in prison on Friday for inciting the public for disobedience against the National Public Health Organization’s directive on the mandatory use of face masks. The 47-year-old priest, whose sentence was suspended for three years, spoke against the use of face …
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August 31, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
A priest is Florina, western Macedonia, is threatened with suspension because he has forbidden the use of mask inside the church. He reportedly posted an announcement at the church and informed the congregation that “we are not allowed to wear a mask in the Holy and Sanctified house of God …
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July 31, 2020
animals
A priest punched and injured an elderly woman for feeding stray cats near the church he was serving. The victim filed a lawsuit against her abuser. She denounced the unprecedented act of violence to a local animal welfare society that published the incident. The woman complained that she was punched …
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July 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Unprecedented! State broadcaster ERT gave the floor to a monk priest to “enlighten” Greeks with conspiracy theories regarding the coronavirus. Priest Ignatios claimed that the World Health Organization WHO is trying to impose a “world dictatorship” through the virus and that people were paid to say that 200 have died …
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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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February 28, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
Greek state broadcaster ERT invited a spiritual authority to give answers to commoners’ crucial and practical contemporary questions: is there any coronavirus contamination risk during the Holy Communion? There is no problem between the coronavirus and the Holy Communion “because Christ had never been a germs carrier,” priest Stylianos Karpathiou …
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January 22, 2020
Very Mix
Police has arrested a priest for having arson carnival constructions in the city of Patras which is famous for its Carnival events. According to local media tempo24.gr, the priest is believed to have set on fire four carnival items on Monday and a fifth one on Tuesday night, when he …
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