The government body calls the double-headed eagle, the symbol of the AEK team, “nationalist” and that it evokes “feelings of irredentism” among the Greeks (i.e. oblivion of the lost homelands) and will be considered by the Turks as an insulting symbol! The Hellenic Chamber of Fine Arts, which is overseen by the Ministry of Culture, […]
An anti-abortion sermon will be read in churches across Greece, the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church decided on Thursday. It will be read on Sunday, September 8, the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. The Permanent Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, convened under the chairmanship of His Beatitude […]
Archdeacon Ioann Khrisavgis, adviser to the head of the Phanar, believes that the Orthodox Church should not only determine its position towards LGBT people, but also accept it as a given of the times. On July 25, 2022, the Archdeacon of the Phanar Archdiocese in the USA, adviser to Patriarch Bartholomew John Chrysavgis, published an […]
The tragicomic series called “The Battle of Filaret with His Disciples” continues. On February 2, a synod of the OCU was held, which: asked the Church of Greece for an anathema for the Greek “hierarchs” of Filaret, announced a ban on service and absentee defrocking for three “hierarchs” defectors from the OCU to the UOC-KP, […]