Cyprus

Church to create new jobs

May 17, 2013 Featured News

May – 2013 – CYPRUS PAPHOS – The Church of Cyprus is planning development projects worth millions of euros that will create thousands of jobs, Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Monday. Speaking on the sidelines of a visit to Paphos hospital, he said that the government would do everything possible to spur growth. He said he [...]

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Church urges people to engage in charitable activities

May 17, 2013 News

May – 2013  CYPRUS THE COUNTRY’S deep economic difficulties give people the opportunity to engage in charitable activity, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said in his Easter message reiterating the Church’s willingness to donate its assets to help exit the crisis. “The Church… is making available to the people all of its fortune so that they do [...]

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Church ready to pay up for monastery restoration

April 11, 2013 Featured News

10/4/13 THE CHURCH of Cyprus is ready to pay to restore the crumbling Apostolos Andreas monastery in the occupied Karpas peninsula, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said yesterday. The church is expected to put in the €2.5 million necessary for the first phase of a three-stage restoration process that is due to cost in total an estimated [...]

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Archbishop Demetrios in Aid of Cyprus

April 3, 2013 Featured News

Nicky Mariam Onti - 5/4/13 Archbishop of America Demetrios has called a meeting of leading Greek Americans and Cypriot American organizations to discuss the situation in Cyprus and share ideas in order to find ways to help the Cypriot people. The meeting will be held on April 3, at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese [...]

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Cyprian Archbishop Calls On Central Bank’s Head, Finance Minister To Resign

April 1, 2013 Featured News

By VOR - 1/4/13 The head of Cyprus’s Orthodox Christian Church Archbishop Chrysostom II has called on the Chairman of the country’s Central Bank Panikos Dimitriadis and Finance Minister Mihailis Sarris to resign. The archbishop accuses them of agreeing to the tough measures aimed at stabilizing the Cyprian economy which the EU and the IMF are [...]

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In Cyprus financial crisis, even Orthodox Church could lose millions

March 27, 2013 Featured News

By Roy Gutman -McClatchy Newspapers 27/3/13 The Cypriot government has agreed to force bank-account holders to help pay for the rescue of debt-ridden banks, but who actually will end up footing the bill isn’t known. NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus, a palm-fringed island in the Mediterranean Sea, has long held three distinctions: Its economy is the smallest in [...]

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Head of Orthodox Church in Cyprus favors leaving eurozone

March 24, 2013 Featured News

24/3/13 The head of the powerful Orthodox Church in Cyprus says he prefers the debt-stricken nation to leave the euro as Nicosia is striving to avoid bankruptcy. “The euro cannot last,” said Archbishop Chrysostomos II in an interview with the Greek daily Realnews published on Saturday. “I’m not saying that it will crumble tomorrow, but [...]

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Orthodox Church in Cyprus offers assets to aid crisis

March 20, 2013 Featured News

20/3/13 The head of Cyprus’s influential Orthodox Church says he will put the church’s assets at the country’s disposal to help pull it out of a financial crisis, after politicians rejected a plan to seize up to 10 percent of people’s bank deposits to secure an international bailout. Speaking after meeting president Nicos Anastasiades today, [...]

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Cyprus Church: EU bailout offensive

March 19, 2013 News

19/3/13 Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church on the island, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, described the Europeans stance at the Eurogroup on Cyprus as “offensive”. Speaking to reporters after a memorial service on Sunday, the head of the Cyprus church said that when Cyprus is able to, it should leave the Eurozone. He said that it [...]

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Decades-old Church-state land deal almost closed

March 19, 2013 News

15/3/13 Cyprus: THE CHURCH will soon be transferring tracts of land to the state, bringing to a close a deal struck some 40 years ago. The announcement was made yesterday following a meeting between Archbishop Chrysostomos and Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos. A 1971 agreement between Archbishop Makarios – who was president at the time – [...]

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Messiah College professor goes in search of Barnabas

February 28, 2013 Featured News
This church is part of the Monastery of Apostle Barnabas complex near Salamis, Cyprus. Turkish authorities will not allow Orthodox Christians to hold sacred liturgy in this church because Turkish officials decades ago turned the church into a museum for tourists.

By JOHN HILTON Daily Record/Sunday News – 28/2/13 Michal Cosby’s four-month stay in Cyprus reveals unexpected findings of the little-known biblical figure. As a historian, Michael Cosby knows he has to set the record straight on the little-known biblical figure Barnabas. As a human being who was welcomed with open arms during his four months [...]

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Malas pledges to work with Church

February 16, 2013 News

Stefanos Evripidou – 13/2/13 THE AKEL-backed presidential candidate Stavros Malas yesterday pledged to work with the Church of Cyprus in forming policies to tackle the country’s division and economic woes. Following in the footsteps of his main opponent in the presidential race, DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades, Malas yesterday met with Archbishop Chrysostomos II for over [...]

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Historic day for Apostolos Andreas

February 7, 2013 Featured News

February 2013 RESTORATION WORK on the dilapidated monastery of Apostolos Andreas in the Karpas peninsula will finally begin after an agreement was signed yesterday between the Church of Cyprus and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The monastery will be restored according to a study prepared by the University of Patra in Greece. The work [...]

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Illegal Lease of Armenian Church in Occupied Cyprus Revoked

February 7, 2013 Featured News

7/2/13 NICOSIA—Officials at Near East University in Occupied Cyprus announced that they were backtracking from the illegal lease of the historic 14th St. Mary’s Church and Monastery after protests from the US, the Milliyet newspaper reported. The 10-year lease, which was unfairly granted by an organization for religious foundations in Occupied Cyprus to Near East [...]

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A triumph of bicommunal collaboration

February 3, 2013 News

Stefanos Evripidou – 2/2/13 REACHING AGREEMENT on restoration work for the decaying monastery of Apostolos Andreas in the Karpas peninsular was a triumph of bicommunal collaboration and positive thinking, said Takis Hadjidemetriou, a member of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage yesterday. “This is a watershed moment. Only through the cooperation of Greek Cypriots and [...]

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Gov’t asks Cyprus church to help secure Russian loan

January 25, 2013 Featured News

FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE – 24/1/13 THE CYPRUS government appears to be seeking divine intervention in times of distress and has asked the head of the church to help secure a €5 billion loan from Russia. Archbishop Chrysostomos will intervene on its behalf to the Church of Russia regarding a request by Cyprus for financial assistance from [...]

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Father of modern Cypriot theatre dies

January 24, 2013 Featured News

24/1/13 PHIVOS Moussoulides, former diplomat, and co-founder of the Lyriko theatre in 1942, and of the first professional theatre group in Cyprus, died on Wednesday aged 94. Moussoulides was married  for 70 years. He leaves behind three sons, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. In addition to being well known for the founding of the Lyriko [...]

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Turkish Smuggler Wants Cypriot Treasures

January 16, 2013 News

Christina Flora - January 2013 According to a report by the German newspaper Abendzeitung, Aydin Dikmen, a Turkish smuggler of artworks, is going to the courts asking for Cypriot treasures to be declared a “dowry” of his wife and is demanding  compensation from the Church of Cyprus if he’s forced to return them. Dikmen is a [...]

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Archbishop Chrysostomos calls for Cyprus solution

December 26, 2012 News

FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE – 26/12/12 In his Christmas message, read in all churches , Archnishop Chrysostomos notes that the strength of the message of the lord born into humanity rises above all the problems that Greek Cypriots face today, with occupation being the foremost. The head of the Cyprus Church says that efforts to reunify Cyprus [...]

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Cyprus Church leader urges unions to avoid strikes

December 17, 2012 News

NICOSIA, Cyprus — The Associated Press – 15/12/12 The leader of Cyprus’ Orthodox Christian Church is urging trade unions not to strike over austerity measures taken by the government. Cyprus has cut salaries for state workers and a range of benefits – steps international lenders have demanded in exchange for a bailout. Archbishop Chrystostomos II [...]

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The Speaker of the Parliament of Cyprus visits the Catholicosate of Cilicia

December 8, 2012 Featured News

“WE CONDEMN THE POLITICS OF DENIAL OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY TURKEY” States His Holiness Aram I   “THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS SUPPORTS THE JUST CAUSE OF THE ARMENIANS” Replies Yianniks Omirou, Speaker of the Cypriot Parliament  On Tuesday, December 4th, 2012, H.E. Yiannis Omirou and his delegation met with His Holiness Aram I in [...]

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The church cannot solve the crisis

November 25, 2012 News

24/11/2012 TRUE to form Archbishop Chrysostomos II is against homosexuality and communism, and will be out in the streets protesting against the harsh bailout conditions set by Cyprus’ international lenders, he said in two-part interview this weekend. The outspoken primate gave a lengthy interview to Politisnewspaper published over two days – the newspaper’s Sunday and Monday [...]

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Is there hope at last for Apostolos Andreas?

November 15, 2012 Featured News

Poly Pantelides – 12/11/2012 SUCCESSIVE plans to renovate Apostolos Andreas Monastery in occupied Karpasia date back years but have all stumbled over who is to administer and fund the project. In the meantime, one of the most important Greek Orthodox religious sites in Cyprus is quite simply crumbling, becoming more dangerous with every passing year. [...]

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UNDP restorers dismayed by plans for historic Armenian church

November 10, 2012 News

10/11/2012 An organization for religious foundations in the north has leased an historic and beautifully restored Armenian site through an unfair and opaque tender procedure, the United Nations Development Program-Action for Cooperation and Trust (UNDP-ACT) program have said, the Cyprus Mail reports. EVKAF, that oversees religious foundations in the north, leased in August the 14th [...]

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Yanukovych meets with leader of Orthodox Church of Cyprus

November 10, 2012 Featured News

10/11/2012 Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Friday met with Archbishop Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, the presidential press service has reported. During the meeting, Yanukovych said that Ukraine and Cyprus were maintaining traditional friendly relations, which have deep historical roots. He said that a common spiritual foundation – the Orthodox faith [...]

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