June 16, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A picture from the inauguration of a Sports Center on Crete went viral for a good reason and stirred the Greek society that expressed anger and outrage over the exclusion of a person with disabilities from a blessing ceremony.stirred the Greek society. The Sports Minister who awas present at the …
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December 11, 2021
Greece, Politics
The Church of Greece wants 4,000 priests on the state payroll and for this purpose it proceed to an unusual move, a first: it invited Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to attend the meeting of the Holy Synod on Monday. The issue is putting the conservative Greek government in a real …
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November 4, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
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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August 17, 2021
Politics, Refugees
Representatives of the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches and migrants joined in a prayer for all refugees of the world. The event took place in Mytilene on the island of Lesvos on Tuesday afternoon. The event was held by the statue of a refugee mother from the Asia Minor disaster …
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July 28, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Anti-vaxxers in Greece have found a new way to make their attitude heard: they have started to verbally attack priests when the latter speak to congregation in favor of vaccinations against Covid-19. In just two days, two incidents occurred in Zakynthos and Thessaloniki where anti-vaxxers protested the priest shouting Shame! …
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July 8, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Some priests on the island of Crete refuse to give the Holy Communion to vaccinated citizens. And this at the time when the country is trying to speed up the vaccinations program in order to create a protection shield against the Delta Variant of Covid-19. The denouncement came by Professor …
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November 17, 2020
Greece
A priest is lifting a child, letting it kiss the corpse of the Bishop of Langadas Ioannis who died of Covid-19. The body of the Bishop is in an open coffin so that other priests and faithful pay their respect. The child is lucky to have its face mask on. …
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September 18, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Alternate Minister for Migration and Asylum, Giorgos Koumoutsakos, received Communion on Thursday without taking any measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, according to a website reporting on issues relating to Orthodox Church. The website Romfea published a photo of the minister receiving Communion in the tradition of the …
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April 12, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greek state and religious authorities have launched investigation into two priests who share the Holy Communion to fiathful, despite the explicit ban by both authorities. It was a priest in Koukaki district in Athens, who gave the Holy Communion to children and elderly at the back door of the church, …
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March 24, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
On the back of a pickup truck, priests sprinkled with holy water the streets of Aigio in order to protect the people and the town from the coronavirus. The two priests had climbed on the back of a farmer’s pickup truck that took them around the town of Aigio in …
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July 17, 2019
Greece, Politics
Greece’s newly-elected conservative New Democracy government on Tuesday scrapped plans to remove priests from the state payroll, reversing a decision by its leftist predecessor that aimed to carve a clearer distinction between church and state. Priests in the powerful Greek Orthodox Church have been treated as civil servants in Greece …
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November 10, 2018
Greece, Politics
For two hours Educations and Religious Affairs Minister Costas Gavroglou was briefing Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul about the recent agreement between the government and the Greek Orthodox Church of Greece. I twas the second time within two days, the Ecumenical Patriarch was receiving a briefing by Greek officials on …
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November 9, 2018
Greece
The announcement that 10,000 new civil servants will be hired after 10,000 priest will be removed from the state payroll has created a lot of confusion. How will Tsipras will finance the wages for so many civil servants if the state will keep subsidizing the priests wages? In an interview …
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November 7, 2018
Greece
“The agreement between the State and the Church frees 10,000 jobs for civil servants,” government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos told reporters during a regular press briefing on Wednesday. “This gives the opportunity to cover these places with the hiring of civil servants to cover needs of the social state, by hiring …
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November 7, 2018
Greece
Priests are fuming over the change of their labor status that was announced on Tuesday after a meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Ieronymos. According to the joint declaration of the Greek State and the powerful Greek Church, priests will no longer …
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November 6, 2018
Greece
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and leader of Greek Orthodox Church Archbishop Ieronymos met on Tuesday afternoon ahead of the crucial Constitutional Revision. The poilitical and spiritual leaders of Greece agreed to set up a Joint Fund for the Exploitation of Church Property. Furthermore, they seem to have agreed on the …
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September 17, 2018
Society, Very Mix
Fake priests have conducted more than 50 religious weddings during a period of ten years in a specific wedding venue in Attica. Couples that got married in a wedding venue in Varypompi in Attica need to validate their holy bond through the judicial way. The case was discovered when some …
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June 18, 2018
Society, Very Mix
A group of priests has contested the new police identification cards at the Council of State. The priests’ problem the electronic data chip – RDIP chip – that will contain the usual personal information, biometric data as well as the national security number (AMKA), blood group and Rhesus type, with …
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December 29, 2011
Very Mix
Brooms landed on shoulders and backs, fists met noses and cheeks and no so holy insults tempted the ears of believers when Greek Orthodox priests clashed with Armenian clergymen and Franciscan monks over jurisdiction in the Nativity Church in Bethlehem. The traditional cleaning of the church turned into an ugly …
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