Greek Church
Greece
Church to Draw Up Three-Year Plan to Limit Debt
According to Kathimerini newspaper, the Church of Greece is drafting a three-year economic schedule in an attempt to reduce its debt and to take advantage of its possessions to secure its independence, Archbishop Ieronymos stated during a session of...
Business
Athens Merchants Oppose Sunday Openings
The Greek government's plan to allow more Sunday store openings to give a boost to store owners has run into a roadblock - from the merchants themselves - who don't want their businesses to run seven days a week,...
Economy
Greek Parliament Approves Joint Development Company for Church Property
An amendment was passed in Parliament on Wednesday establishing the "Company for Developing the Real Estate Assets of the Church SA", which will be owned equally by the Greek state and the Greek Orthodox Church.
During discussion in Parliament, main...
Greece
Archbishop Ieronymos Offers Farming Land
With nearly two million people out of work in a crushing economic crisis and more turning to the land to grow food as prices have remained high, the head of the Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos, has offered land...
Greece
Church Promises Aid to Weakest
The serious economic crisis which Greece is experiencing has also affected the powerful Greek Orthodox Church, which continues to make its disagreement known over the actions taken by Socialist prime minister George Papandreou.
Interventions which, however, some parts of the...
Economy
Greeks Driven Up the Wall by New EU/IMF Property Tax
Τhe Greek Ministry of Finance is breaking the backs of all Greeks by imposing a new property tax in order to prove to the EU and IMF that the government stays true to its creditors’ austerity programme.
At the news...