Konstantinos Sgoumpopoulos, a Zen abbot as well as shipping and real estate businessman, talks to Kathimerini about the first Zen monastery to be built in Greece and the wider region.
RELIGION
In view of the preparations for Ramadan, the Yeni Mosque, an Ottoman monument in Thessaloniki which hosts various cultural activities, will for the first time be granted to Muslims for prayers during Eid al-Fitr on April 10. The Suleymaniye Mosque on Rhodes will also be given for Eid prayers.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Israel would face “very serious consequences” if it banned Palestinian Muslims from entering holy sites during the coming month of Ramadan.
Backlash from the Orthodox Church of Greece against a landmark law allowing same-sex civil marriage intensified Tuesday, with a regional bishopric imposing a religious ban on two local lawmakers who backed the reform.
In 2020 Turkey’s government changed the status of Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque. Now, Ankara is looking to repeat this with another important UNESCO World Heritage site, Chora Church. Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou joins Thanos Davelis to look at why preserving Chora Church is important.
Greece’s Independence Day on March 25 and Greek Orthodox Easter on May 3 will serve as a barometer of the Church’s response to legislation passed by Parliament institutionalizing same sex marriage.
The Hellenic American Leadership Council, an influential Greek-American advocacy group, has launched a petition against Ankara’s conversion of another important Byzantine monument, the Chora Church, into a mosque.
More tension looms between Church and state over the bill for same-sex civil marriage and adoption by such couples which Parliament recently passed,.
The status of Orthodox Christians around the world will improve in the relatively near future due to a recent profound expansion of the efforts of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
In Islam, homosexuality is a grave sin that is believed to incur the wrath of Allah. In some strict Islamic countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, punishments such as flogging, stoning, and burning at the stake are prescribed.
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will attend and speak at the “4th Archon International Conference of Religious Freedom” that will be held in Athens on 26-29 May 2024.
The Metropolis of Piraeus announced on Thursday it would “cut ties” with lawmakers who voted for the marriage equality bill.
Interior Minister Niki Kerameos requested on Monday an investigation into the employment status of the 45-year-old father from the “early Christian” family living in a makeshift dwelling in the mountainous region of Corinthia, Peloponnese.
The 47-year-old father of the self-described “early Christian” family living in the Corinthia municipality, Peloponnese, in a makeshift dwelling without modern rudimentary facilities, was arrested on Sunday for failure to comply with the compulsory education requirement for his three minor children.
Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage under civil law. At least for the near future, it will almost certainly be the only one.
American Hellenic Institute (AHI) President Nick Larigakis penned a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday concerning Turkey’s renewed intentions to convert the historic Chora Church in Istanbul into a mosque later this month, according to press reports.
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