Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond, Oklahoma, refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine because she believed it contained “aborted cell tissue.”
RELIGION
The government will be able to provide extraordinary funding to the Church of Greece and other religious organizations in the country, to address the needs that have arisen due to the pandemic.
The deputy governor of the Mount Athos monastic community in northern Greece, Aristos Kasmiroglou, has extended a suspension of pilgrimages to the peninsula until April 15, the foreign ministry announced on Wednesday.
The director of the regional health clinic at Karyes expects that by the end of May over 500 monks, out of a general population of about 4,000, will have been vaccinated in the autonomous monastic polity in Northern Greece.
Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis and his Istanbul counterpart Ekrem Imamoglu on Friday visited the Patriarchate in the Phanar district, where they were received by Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios.
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Colorful kites danced in the skies above the hilltops and seafront promenades of Athens on Clean Monday as Greeks turned out to celebrate the Eastern Christian holiday in their traditional fashion after being hit hard by the pandemic during the winter.
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on Monday expressed confidence that the exterior of the National Shrine at the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church will be completed before September 11 this year.
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The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece has condemned as “shameful” and “unacceptable” an article by journalist Elena Akrita about this week’s incidents of police violence for drawing “nonexistent parallels” between the conditions at Auschwitz “with life in a democratic country like Greece.”
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and his aides have succeeded in maintaining the accreditation of Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School Of Theology (HCHC), the Orthodox liberal arts college and theological seminary in Brookline, Massachusetts.
The all-male monastic community of Mount Athos announced on Friday it will extend a ban on visitors or pilgrims until February 28, as part of measures against the coronavirus pandemic.
Tourism Minister Mehmet Ersoy met with Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos in Istanbul on Saturday and discussed issues affecting the Patriarchate, according to a press release from the Patriarchate.
US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris began their first full day in office attending a virtual Presidential Inaugural Interfaith Prayer Service.
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has been invited to join the customary prayer held the day after a new US president is inaugurated, which is scheduled to take place, virtually, on Thursday, at 10 a.m. local time at Washington National Cathedral.
Turkey condemned on Monday the comments made by Greece’s top cleric about Islam, describing them as “presumptuous” and noting that they undermine efforts to restart the exploratory bilateral talks on maritime sovereignty which are scheduled to start later in January.
What would happen if a business association convened tomorrow and decided to reopen all its stores on Monday?
Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Nigeria Alexandros recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus, just moments before boarding an airplane from Lagos to Athens.
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