Greek Orthodox Church
Greece
Greek Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Against Greek Church and Metropolitans
A new video has gone public, showing Golden Dawn’s first in charge, Nikos Michaloliakos, commenting on some Metropolitans of the Greek Orthodox Church in particular. This video was among those that were seized by anti-terrorism officers, from the personal...
Education
Greek Church Interferes with School Book Contexts
The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church decided to interfere with school book contexts, and the Ministry of Education requested an appointment between a Church representative, and the Editorial Committee of the Pedagogical Institute.
According to the report by...
Europe
Prophet Elias in Izmir to Be Demolished
A historic monument of Christianity is being sacrificed on the altar of modernization. The Orthodox Church of Prophet Elias in Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey, one of the few Christian churches in the region, is set to be demolished under...
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...
Diaspora
First Free Greek Orthodox School in the UK
The first Greek Orthodox secondary school in England is about to open next week in North London.
The school is the St. Andrew the Apostle School in Barnet and as the BBC reports, it will teach students from 11...
Australia
Greek Freedom Marked In Sydney, Melbourne
Thousands of Greek Australians, and Australians of other ethnicities came together in Sydney and Melbourne on March 24 to mark Greece's Independence Day holiday of March 25.
In Sydney the event took place in the Central Park before Prime Minister...
Economy
Crisis Pushes Greek Poverty To 31%
Unrelenting pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions have put 31 percent of the Greek population at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2011, according to a report released by Eurostat on Feb. 26. According to the report’s...
Greek News
New Greek Orthodox Patriarch Enthroned in Syria
Syria’s Greek Orthodox Church enthroned a new patriarch during a ceremonial mass in Damascus on Sunday amid civil war.
John Yazigi, 57, replaces Ignatius Hazim as the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East. Hazim died in December.
The...
Greece
Two Church Officials Suspected of Tax Evasion
The Greek finance ministry’s economic crimes department is probing the bank accounts of two top officials of the Greek Orthodox Church in a tax evasion investigation, the Ethnos newspaper reported on Monday.
The Greek financial authorities discovered that and Metropolitan...
Economy
Austerity Pushes 20% of Greeks Into Poverty
More than 2.34 million people in Greece are living below the poverty line, due largely to a barrage of pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions that have hit workers, pensioners and the poor while the rich, politicians, and...