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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Wishes For Formation of ‘Viable Government’

by OCP May 9, 2012 News

By Areti Kotseli 7/5/2012 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew wished Greece to succeed in electing a “viable government” so that the country “comes out of the crisis.” After the Divine Liturgy he held at St. George church close to the Adrianopoles Gate (Edirnekapou) yesterday, he addressed his audience saying, “We wish a viable and stable government be [...]

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Crisis proves a curse for Greece’s Orthodox Church

by OCP April 22, 2012 News

By Harry Papachristou ATHENS 20/4/2012 (Reuters) – Close links between the Greek state and the Orthodox Church are turning from a blessing for the clergy into a curse as the debt-laden government struggles to fund the ancient institution, just as impoverished Greeks need its charitable work most. Starved of money as the state makes huge [...]

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Orthodox patriarch hits at “unacceptable” attacks on ecumenism

by OCP April 5, 2012 News

Jonathan Luxmoore 4/4/2012 (ENInews). The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians has written to Greece’s Orthodox state church, deploring anti-ecumenical statements by its leaders. “Critical voices about ecumenism, long heard in the bosom of the church of Greece, have hitherto been limited in scope – but what has occurred recently has reached unacceptable levels,” [...]

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How a Funeral Home is Healing the Painful History of Turkish Christians

by OCP March 10, 2012 Featured News
An Orthodox woman prays during Christmas Liturgy at Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul / Reuters

10/3/2012 An Orthodox cemetery in Istanbul is trying to negotiate Turkey’s complicated Muslim-Christian relationship. More than 40 years ago, Kirkor Çapan, an ethnic Armenian, and his father set up what today is one of the last Christian funeral homes still operating in Istanbul. But the funeral parlor is not a religious island unto itself. With [...]

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Turkey: Istanbul Funeral Home Fosters Muslim-Christian Understanding

by OCP March 10, 2012 News

9/3/2012 More than 40 years ago, Kirkor Çapan, an ethnic Armenian, and his father set up what today is one of the last Christian funeral homes still operating in Istanbul. But the funeral parlor is not a religious island unto itself. With so few Christians left in Turkey, the stonemasons and carpenters working with Çapan [...]

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Opening of Exhibition

by OCP March 4, 2012 News

Ecumenical Patriarchate 3/3/2012 On Thursday, March 1, 2012, His All-Holiness officially opened the Photograph Exhibition in his honor entitled “Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: trek to Mount Athos” organized by the Mt. Athos Center of Thessaloniki and hosted by the General Consul of Greece, the Hon. Nikolaos Matthioudakis at the Sismanogleio Hall of the Greek Consulate General [...]

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Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Visits Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul

by OCP March 3, 2012 News

By Stella Tsolakidou 1/3/2012 Greek Deputy Foreign Minister, D. Dollis, held a meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Fener, Istanbul, earlier Thursday morning, in which the two men discussed issues concerning the international activities of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The Greek deputy also congratulated His All Holiness for his 72nd birthday. Having completed his formal visit [...]

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We are no tax cheats, says Church of Greece

by OCP February 23, 2012 News

AFP 23/2/2012 ATHENS – The Church of Greece denied media reports accusing it of tax evasion on Wednesday, saying the total amount of taxes paid in 2011 was over 12.5 million euros (S$20.8 million). “The Church of Greece … has never requested unequal tax treatment in relation to other Greek non-profit organisations,” the top church [...]

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AHEPA Initiatives to Help Relieve People in Debt-Ridden Greece

by OCP February 16, 2012 Featured News

16/2/2012 Stella Tsolakidou To donate to AHEPA Foundation, Inc. online, visit www.ahepa.org The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), a leading membership-based association for the nation’s three million American citizens of Greek heritage and Philhellenes, will mobilize its chapters, and work in cooperation with the International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), to help with humanitarian relief [...]

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Greek Orthodox Church Paid 12.6 Million Euros in Taxes in 2011

by OCP February 16, 2012 News

By Natalie Weeks 16/2/2012 Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — The Orthodox Church of Greece paid 12.6 million euros ($16.4 million) in taxes to the state last year, the Holy Synod of Bishops said in a statement on its website today. The church is taxed like all non-profit organizations in Greece, according to a separate statement posted [...]

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“Greek News” Appeals to Greek-American Community For Support to Homeland

by OCP February 15, 2012 News

By Stella Tsolakidou 14/2/2012 The Greek-American daily newspaper “Greek News” has appealed to the Greek Community throughout the US to provide the necessary support for Greek people going through extremely harsh times. In its main article, the editor of the NY newspaper, Mr. Apostolis Zoupaniotis analyzed the Greek situation and presented the overall data concerning [...]

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The Orthodox Saint Valentine

by OCP February 14, 2012 Featured News

14/2/2012 The ancient martyrology of the Church of Rome marks February 14th as the remembrance of “the martyr Valentine, presbyter of Rome” (Valentinus means “vigorous” in Latin). Unfortunately the historical data for the saint is incomplete. The Martyrdom of the Saint in Rome Saint Valentine lived in Rome in the third century and was a [...]

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Greek community flies flag to help homeland

by OCP February 13, 2012 Featured News
Leonidas Vlahakis is just one of many Australians of Greek descent sending money to relatives facing difficulties overseas. Photo: Angela Wylie

Carolyn Webb 14/2/2012 LEADERS of Melbourne’s Greek community will meet to thrash out ways to help loved ones suffering under Greece’s worsening economic crisis. Greek-Australians told of sending money to relatives struggling under slashed pensions and high unemployment, and also of offering shelter. The February 28 meeting, organised by the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne [...]

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National Commander Limberakis honored by the Constantinopolitan Society

by OCP February 9, 2012 News
Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis, National Commander of the Order of Saint Andrew, honored by The Constantinopolitan Society's President, Mr. Anthony Lambidis, during a ceremony in Athens, recognizing his devotion towards the Mother Church of Constantinople and efforts in securing religious freedom for the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Athens, Greece 2/6/2012 Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate The Constantinopolitan Society honored Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis, National Commander of the Order of Saint Andrew, in recognition for his dedication and commitment to the Mother Church of Constantinople, January 29, 2012. The Society paid special tribute to his efforts of informing the international community on the [...]

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Greek Orthodox Church Closes Radio Station Amid Economic Crisis

by OCP February 9, 2012 News

By Paul Tugwell 9/2/2012 Greece’s Orthodox Church halted broadcasts over its radio station after 22 years because of its inability to cover losses amid the country’s economic crisis. “The Church of Greece has decided to immediately suspend the station’s radio signal given inflexible and tight economic circumstances,” the Athens-based Holy Synod of Bishops said in [...]

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Head of Greek Church says austerity is ‘deadly medicine’

by OCP February 4, 2012 News

4/2/2012 Archbishop Ieronymos, the head of the Church of Greece, has taken the rare step of writing to Prime Minister Lucas Papademos to express serious concerns about the effectiveness of the government’s fiscal policy and the effect it is having on Greek people. In his letter, Ieronymos also raises doubts about the role of the [...]

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Greek church leader says austerity ‘fatal’

by OCP February 3, 2012 Featured News

By Derek Gatopoulos, Associated Press 2/2/2012 ATHENS, Greece — The leader of Greece’s Orthodox Church on Thursday warned rising poverty in the crisis-hit country could trigger a “social explosion,” as the government raced to push through more cost-cutting reforms needed to conclude debt deals and avoid a default in March. “Homelessness and even hunger — [...]

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Step-by-Step, Greek-Turkish Relations Warm

by OCP February 2, 2012 News

1/2/2012 The decision by the Turkish Ministry of Education to allow the reopening of a minority primary school on the northeastern Aegean island of Gokceada — 47 years after the schools serving the island’s ethnic Greek population were abruptly shut down — marks the latest step in a gradual but enduring rapprochement between the two [...]

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Greek priest held over treasure hunt

by OCP January 28, 2012 News

27/1/2012 POLICE in northern Greece have arrested a village priest and a church elder for allegedly digging for treasure around the altar in the church. A police statement on Friday says villagers complained of loud drilling noises late yesterday from the church at Fyska near Kilkis, some 50 kilometres north of Thessaloniki. Officers found a [...]

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AT DINNER WITH THE HOMELESS IN ATHENS, GREECE

by OCP January 28, 2012 Featured News

By Diana Farr Louis Huffington Post 27 / 01 / 2012 Like the other dilapidated houses on the block next to the train tracks, the Klimaka shelter for the homeless is covered with bold graffiti. They practically blot out its tomato-red façade and certainly distract attention from the name on its open door. I must [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church Gathers Aid for Debt-Ridden Greece

by OCP January 26, 2012 Featured News

26/1/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church has started a solidarity aid campaign, gathering funds for fellow orthodox Greece, which has been plagued by a severe financial crisis. Russian Patriarch Kirill has blessed the collection of donations in all orthodox churches across Russia. Thursday Patriarch Kirill met with chair of Greek conservative party New Democracy Antonis Samaras [...]

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Requiem concert to commemorate new martyrs and confessors of Christ in 15th-20th century Greece, Cyprus, Asia Minor and Pontus

by OCP January 26, 2012 Featured News

26/1/2012 On January 25, 2012, a requiem concert took place at the Church of Christ the Saviour’s Hall of Councils in conclusion of the 20th Educational Christmas Readings. Named ‘Confessors of Orthodoxy after the Fall of the Empire’, it was devoted to the feat performed by new martyrs and confessors of Christ in the 15th-20th [...]

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Orthodox Church Supports Hellenism in Hungary

by OCP January 21, 2012 News

By Fani Toli 20/1/2012 The Greek Ambassador to Hungary, Spyridon Georgiles, emphasized during a discussion held on the occasion of the Blessing of the Waters and the casting of the Holy Cross at the Danube River on the Epiphany, that the Orthodox Church in Hungary always promotes and supports diaspora Hellenism. The ambassador also praised [...]

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The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece demands Elder Efraim’s release

by OCP January 19, 2012 News

13/1/2012 Lake Vistonida Issue At the decision of the Holy Synod Archbishop Jeronymos will visit the Abbot of the Vatopedi monastery, Archimandrite Efrem, in the Korydallos detention centre. In a statement, the Holy Synod condemns the elder’s detention on Christmas Eve and indirectly demanded his release. It says that the Synod ‘along with the congregation [...]

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Russian Church declines to comment on Constantinople statement on abbot’s arrest

by OCP January 13, 2012 News

Moscow, January 12, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church has declined to comment on a statement from the Patriarchate of Constantinople on Tuesday on the recent arrest in Greece of Archimandrite Ephrem, abbot of the Vatopedi Monastery in Greece’s Mt. Athos monastic community, over real estate deals. “I assume that [the statement] speaks for itself. [...]

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