Greek Orthodox Church

Stolen religious items returned to Greek Orthodox Church in Watertown

May 12, 2013 News

By Dana Forsythe Wicked Local Watertown 12/5/13 On Friday morning a garbage bag full of previously stolen religious items was found behind the Taxiarchae/Archangels Greek Orthodox Church in Watertown. According to Fr. Demetrios Tonias of Archangels Greek Orthodox Church, a maintenance man found the items behind the church’s social hall when he arrived to clean [...]

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Settlers Burn Greek Orthodox Church Land In Jerusalem

April 29, 2013 Featured News

29/4/13 On Sunday evening April 28, 2013, a group of extremist Israeli settlers burnt a land that belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church in Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that dozens of extremist Israeli settlers and soldiers gathered in the area, and that the armed [...]

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Archbishop Atallah Hanna Appeal for the Release of Kidnapped Bishops From Aleppo

April 28, 2013 Featured News

28/4/13 Jerusalem – Archbishop Atallah Hanna Sebastia, Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, appealed to all people to work as soon as possible in order to release the two bishops, Bishop Paul Yazigi archdiocese Aleppo Greek Orthodox Church and Bishop John Ibrahim archdiocese Aleppo for Syrian Orthodox. Archbishop Atallah Hanna said that the [...]

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Orthodox Church denies cover up

April 25, 2013 News

25/4/13 Bishop Iakovos fronts the parliament’s child sex abuse inquiry and says the church would never cover up any criminal behaviour. Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Bishop Iakovos of Miletoupolis defended the Church’s reputation when he fronted the Victorian parliamentary inquiry on child sex abuse in the church this week. The Bishop said the church and the [...]

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The Greek Orthodox Church would never sweep abuse allegations under the carpet, a Victorian inquiry has heard.

April 13, 2013 News

13/4/13 - Australia  The church has a rigorous process for dealing with misconduct complaints, including reporting criminal behaviour to police, but it has never been tested in an allegation of child sex abuse, the parliamentary inquiry heard on Friday. Church groups The Salvation Army and the Jehovah’s Witnesses told the inquiry on Thursday they felt it [...]

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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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Jennifer Aniston May Marry in Greek Orthodox Church

March 4, 2013 Featured News

Joanna Varikos - 4/3/13 Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s wedding plans are moving along, with buzz that the intimate ceremony may take place at a Greek Orthodox Church in Pennsylvania Aniston used to frequent as a child. Sources in the town of Eddystone, Penn., have said that the couple are looking at possibly marrying at St. [...]

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Holy springs, healing springs: Istanbul’s ayazma

March 2, 2013 Featured News
Istanbul has quite a few holy springs, referred to as ayazma from the Greek, meaning holy water. The most important of the ayazmas in Istanbul is the one in Balıklı.

Niki GammISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News 2/3/13 The most important of the ayazmas in Istanbul is the one in Balıklı, outside the Theodosian walls near Silivrikapı. This spring, which belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church, is dedicated to the Virgin Mary Springs are to be found all over the world and nowhere more so than [...]

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Kadner: Orthodox Church fights for freedom

February 18, 2013 Featured News
Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos speaks on the plight of the Greek Orthodox Church in Turkey Sunday during a press conference in support of a resolution in the Illinois General Assembly. The resolution SR70-2013. The resolution is important to followers of the Greek Orthodox faith because a changing religious climate in Turkey is believed to be a threat. | Mary Beth Nolan~For Sun-Times Media

Phil Kadner – 18/2/13 Imagine the worldwide outrage if the Pope resigned and the Italian government insisted it have a role in deciding who would take his place. Leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church in the United States are trying to draw attention to exactly that sort of government interference in their ability to choose [...]

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Hidden Treasures: St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church

February 5, 2013 News

Linda Carson – 5/2/13 MANATEE COUNTY – There are many hidden treasures here on the Suncoast; amazing sights of beauty we may sometimes miss entirely unless someone points them out for us – like St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church on Lockwood Ridge Road at Tallevast Road. Experts say the Greek Orthodox church in Tarpon Springs [...]

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Ribbon Cut At New Greek Orthodox Church Cultural Center

January 16, 2013 News

16/1/13 On a Sunday morning that was as accommodating as a spring day, members of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons gathered outside the church for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, celebrating the opening of the Johnides Family Cultural Center. According to Father Alexander Karloutsos, the building—which primarily contains classrooms and meeting rooms—will allow the church [...]

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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I VISITS PATRIARCH YOHANNA X

December 22, 2012 News

On Wednesday 19 December 2012, Catholicos Aram I visited the new Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, Yohanna X, at the Balamand Monastery. After congratulating the new Head, Catholicos Aram I spoke of the long relationship between the two churches and expressed the wish to strengthen that relationship, especially in view of the [...]

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New Patriarch of Greek Orthodox Church Arrives to Syria

December 20, 2012 News

20/12/12 Damascus, Dec 20 (Prensa Latina) His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East, will arrive to Damascus today, from Lebanon. A popular reception is scheduled to welcome the newly elected leader of the Christian congregation in the seat of the Patriarchate, in this capital. According to [...]

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Bishop John Kallos, 84: First U.S.-born Greek Orthodox bishop

December 8, 2012 Featured News

Michelle E. Shaw -8/12/12 Bishop John Kallos dedicated his life to the Greek Orthodox Church. During his nearly 60 years of service to the church, including more than 40 as a bishop, Kallos assisted in the church’s growth in Atlanta and beyond. “Bishop John was instrumental in bringing the diocese’s headquarters to Atlanta,” said the [...]

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Greek Orthodox leader to AO: Church alone will govern Christians’ personal-status issues

September 28, 2012 Featured News

Sherry El-Gergawi 27/9/2012   Greek Orthodox Church spokesman says recent requests by small Coptic group to make Egypt’s Christians subject to Islamic Law – in regards to personal-status issues, especially divorce – are ‘unacceptable’. In a Thursday letter to Ahram Online, Archbishop Nicholas, spokesman for the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, said that recent requests [...]

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Jordan tour: A Christian town

September 26, 2012 Featured News

Greek Orthodox Church in Amman Steve Thorngate 24/9/2012 On Saturday I broke off from the tour group and went to Fuheis, a town of 20,000 outside Amman. Fuheis is an anomaly in Jordan: it’s almost entirely Christian, majority Orthodox with many Catholics and a smattering of evangelicals. My companions for the afternoon were from the [...]

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Orthodox Church of Malawi reaction to Nyasa Times article

September 19, 2012 Featured News

Archdiocese of the Orthodox Church of Malawi 19/9/2012 From the Orthodox Church in Malawi, we want to answer to the article that sappeared in the Nyasa Times , allegedly written by the Nyasa Reporter on September 14th, 2012. Firstly, we express our greatest surprise about all that was written in this article for we are [...]

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Greek Orthodox Church Stance on the “God Particle”

July 9, 2012 Featured News

7/7/2012 Areti Kotseli The Metropolitan of Messinia Chrysostomos expressed his opinion over the discovery of the so-called “God particle” that astonished the whole world during the past days, clearly drawing a line between science and religion. “I consider every comparison between the CERN experiment for the determination of the Higgs boson and the church’s approach [...]

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Greek Orthodox Church Bishop to be Enthroned for First Time in Botswana

June 2, 2012 Featured News

By Stella Tsolakidou 1/6/2012 After two years of constant efforts and humanitarian work, the relatively newly founded Greek Orthodox Diocese of Botswana will have its first Greek Orthodox Church Bishop enthroned June 2. Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria is expected to arrive at the South African country on June 1, and will be the one [...]

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Rebuilding Of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Moves Forward

April 27, 2012 News
The old St. Nicholas Church – New York, NY (file / credit: Grisha Ressatar)

26/4/2012 NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – On September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers weren’t the only structures destroyed. The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was also erased from Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed on it. Now, the effort to rebuild it is moving ahead, WCBS 880′s John Metaxas reports. “We have a plan and [...]

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Greek Orthodox Church Paid 12.6 Million Euros in Taxes in 2011

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 Orthodox Church Closes Radio Station Amid Economic Crisis

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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Church school is set to open

January 13, 2012 News

By Sophie Barnes 12/1/2012 Website of the School PLANS for a Greek Orthodox Free School are getting off the ground – and the first intake of students is set to walk through the doors in September 2013. Support for the school has come from respected sources including the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop [...]

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Greek Orthodox Church in Gulf Shores to be consecrated by Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta

January 9, 2012 Featured News
At St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox Chapel, the Very Reverend Father Frank Mayernick presides over a Sunday service. On Jan. 20, St. Athanasios will be consecrated by His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta, who will travel to Gulf Shores for what he calls the baptism of the church. (Kate Mercer/Press-Register)

By Roy Hoffman, Press-Register 7/1/2012 In Alabama, St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox parish joins four others: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Mobile; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Montgomery; Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Birmingham; and Saints Constantinople and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Huntsville. In Mississsippi, there are two parishes: Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox [...]

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‘Vasilopita’ One of the Most Inspirational Traditions of Greek Orthodox Church

January 2, 2012 Featured News

Fani Toli 31/12/2/011 One of the most beautiful and inspirational traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church is the annual family celebration of the Vasilopita. This original event which happened in Cappadocia of Caesarea in the last half of the fourth century, is very much alive in our Orthodox homes each year. The Greek word Vasilopita [...]

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