#Avakoum monastery

The whole Avakoum monastery scandal was conjured to cover up an unpaid loan Tamasos Bishop Isaias took from the monastery and only partially paid back, defence lawyer Kostis Efstathiou argued ...

The defence challenged prosecution testimony over €790,000 reportedly kept in safes at the Avakoum monastery during a hearing at Nicosia criminal court on Wednesday. Lawyer Costis Efstathiou, representing Abbot Nektarios, questioned ...

A priest testified on Wednesday in the Avakoum monastery fraud trial, describing the procedures followed at the Tamasos metropolis, the questioning of monks, their confessions and references to large sums ...

Three prosecution witnesses in the Avakoum monastery fraud trial testified on Monday, saying that the monastery had either taken amounts from them without issuing receipts or owned them thousands of ...

A prosecution witness in the Avakoum monastery fraud trial described on Wednesday how footage from a monastery security camera showing one of the defendants apparently faking a religious trance convinced ...

The trial over alleged fraud at the Avakoum monastery continued on Wednesday, as defence lawyers challenged a former monk’s claims that he was mistreated. The witness has testified that ...

A prosecution witness in an ongoing trial over the Avakoum monastery was accused of lying to the court and concealing a sexual harassment case against him, during a combative cross-examination ...

A former monk informed the Nicosia criminal court on Wednesday that monk Nektarios of the Avakoum monastery pretended to be Saint Porphyrios during confessions and used the alleged incidents to ...

Two witnesses told the Nicosia permanent criminal court on Wednesday that they donated thousands of euros towards a church chandelier and an icon at the Avakoum monastery, but never saw ...

Nicosia criminal court on Monday dismissed an objection raised by the defendants’ lawyers in the trial concerning alleged financial fraud at the Avakoum monastery. On trial are monks Nektarios and ...

The defence attorneys of the two Avakoum monastery clerics raised serious objections in court on Monday, challenging whether a number of pieces of evidence presented by prosecutors are in fact ...

Two former monks at the centre of the high-profile Avakoum monastery scandal have launched a bakery business in Lythrodontas while awaiting trial on a series of criminal charges. Former monks ...

Doubt was cast on the legitimacy of police actions when documenting and cataloguing evidentiary items during the ongoing Avakoum monastery trial in the Nicosia criminal court on Monday. On trial ...

There will be no trial within a trial in the Avakoum monks’ case concerning photographs of items, including cash, that the prosecution submitted as evidence. This is because the items ...

The trial of the case concerning the financial part surrounding the scandal of the holy monastery of Saint Avakoum began before Nicosia criminal court on Wednesday with the amendment of ...

The trial of monks Nektarios and Porfyrios of the Osiou Avakoum monastery, who face 24 charges related to alleged financial irregularities, will begin next month, with the case adjourned until then ...

The court case involving Avakoum monastery monks Nektarios and Porfyrios was postponed once again on Friday and is now scheduled for May 27 at 9am. The adjournment followed a request by ...

The court case of Avakoum monastery monks Nektarios and Porfyrios has been postponed yet again, now set for February 24 at 9am, after defence lawyer Efstathios Efstathiou was occupied on Monday ...

Defence lawyer Kostis Efstathiou told the criminal court on Thursday that he would be asking for changes to the bail terms of two monks from the Avakoum monastery, who are ...

The two Avakoum monks, Nektarios and Porphyrios, have pleaded not guilty to the 24 charges brought against them including misappropriation and theft of church funds before Nicosia court on Wednesday. The ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday morning postponed proceedings in the financial case involving the monastery of Saint Avakoum, after defence lawyers argued that key evidence had not been handed ...

One of the 24 charges of money laundering and defrauding faced by the two accused Avakoum monastery monks, Nektarios and Porfyrios, was amended on Tuesday at the Nicosia criminal court at ...

The two accused Avakoum monastery monks, Nektarios and Porfyrios, did not answer to the charges they are facing on Thursday and proceedings have been postponed anew till March 18. The monks ...

The Holy Synod of the church of Cyprus has urged the Metropolitan of Paphos to take a clear stance on controversial publications linked to his Metropolis. The statement followed the ...