A GREEK court has convicted a monastery abbot, a monk and a judge over a real estate dispute that blew up into a major political scandal. Court officials say judge Maria Psalti was found guilty of breach of duty and given a suspended 15-month sentence. The court said Psalti delayed publishing a 2004 ruling against […]

Outgoing Prime-minister K. Karamanlis, in his statement at Zappeio Mansion, assumed responsibility for the results of elections and announced his resignation from the post of ND party President. He also announced that he will start procedures for the election of new president during an extraordinary congress which will convene in a month. Mr. Karamanlis thanked […]

Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos, addressing Parliament on Tuesday on the Vatopedi report issue, accused the main opposition PASOK party of political irresponsibility and stressed that PASOK has proved that ”it is travelling with convenience flags, seeking a governance port, but in politics ships travelling with convenience flags run aground permanently on the reefs of political […]

Athens.- Special for the Greek News The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) plummeted nearly 10 percent on Friday, with the Greek banks leading the “dive”. Senior bank sources have attributed the selling pressure to panic conditions on the market and broader risk aversion by institutional investors. And while market analysts recognize that Greece simply gets hit by […]

Irregularities’ cited, but pastor calls allegations ‘baseless’ Troy — Allegations of possible mishandling of church finances are at the center of a controversy casting a cloud over the congregation at St. George’s Antiochian Orthodox Church. George Samra, the church’s treasurer, says the church “is in dire financial shape” and that all he is trying to […]

An OCA Town Hall meeting was held August 2, 2008 at Sts. Peter & Paul Orthodox Church in South River, NJ, attended by some sixty persons. The Synod of Bishops was represented by His Beatitude, Metropolitan +Herman, with Fr. Andrew Jarmus (OCA Communications Director) facilitating, assisted by Fr. Eric Tosi (OCA Secretary). The meeting was […]

To: Metropolitan HERMAN Archbishop DMITRI Archbishop NATHANIEL Archbishop JOB Bishop TIKHON (Fitzgerald) Bishop SERAPHIM Bishop NIKOLAI Bishop NIKON Bishop Tikhon (Mollard) February 21, 2006 Your Beatitude, your Eminences, your Graces, Bless. Please accept this letter from the clergy whose names appear below. In Christ, Archpriest John Nehrebecki ********************** February 21, 2006 The Holy Synod of […]

What began as an administrative dispute between Canada’s Serbian Orthodox bishop and a parish in Niagara Falls has spiralled into a $17-million lawsuit and a ban on worship on the eve of Orthodox Easter. While Christian Orthodox will joyfully mark Jesus’s resurrection tomorrow, congregants at St. George Serbian Orthodox Church will have to make-do without […]