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Metropolitan Bishop of Kenya, Makarios, has launched a campaign to distribute food to those affected by the economic crisis in the wake of the coronavirus...
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Coronavirus: Health ministry issues guidelines as churches set to open their doors
Τhe health ministry on Friday recommended church goers bow in front of icons instead of kissing them and the hand of the priest to avoid...
Coronavirus: Church says no plastic spoons for Holy Communion
The Church said Thursday it would not be serving Holy Communion with plastic spoons and stood by its position to use the same metal spoon...
Coronavirus: Archbishop to argue for conditional opening of churches
The Archbishop is expected to suggest to the president that alternate church services be held on weekdays as a way of preventing overcrowding on Sundays....
Coronavirus: Religious studies teachers say churches should be opened
Churchgoers should be allowed to attend Sunday services and major events, religious studies teachers of the secondary education teachers union (Oelmek) said on Monday. Their...
Coronavirus: Medical association says coronavirus highly contagious after health workers call for churches to open
The Cyprus medical association (CyMA) was forced to put things into perspective on Monday regarding the high contagiousness of the coronavirus after 152 doctors co-signed...
Coronavirus: Group of health professionals call for churches to reopen
More than 150 health professionals, mainly doctors, have called on President Nicos Anastasiades to ease restrictions over attending church, arguing that people’s spiritual wellbeing is...
Coronavirus: Police chief says those in Erimi church committed a serious offence
The chief of police Kypros Michaelides has said that all those who were caught inside at the Ayios Georgios Spileon church in Erimi in Limassol...
Coronavirus: church standoff ends, priest to be taken to court
A standoff between residents of the village of Erimi, Limassol, and police ended late on Thursday, several hours after the former had holed themselves up...
Coronavirus: group of parishioners seek refuge inside church to avoid being fined
A group of pilgrims apparently visiting the Ayios (Saint) Georgios Spileon church in Erimi, Limassol, to mark his name day, have sought refuge inside the...
Coronavirus: an Easter like no other (with video)
Easter was altogether a different experience this year, with restrictive measures preventing people from going to church at night on Easter Saturday. People sang Christos...
Coronavirus: Archbishop says Cypriots are a bit on the ‘disobedient’ side
Cypriots are a bit on the disobedient side, Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Tuesday calling on the faithful to stay at home after police launched probes...
Coronavirus: Tamasos bishopric donating to families in need
The bishopric off Tamasos And Orinis has announced it will be donating care packages to 500 families in financial distress every 15 days. The packages...
Coronavirus: Police investigating defiant Morphou bishop for holding mass (Updated)
Police were investigating whether Morphou Bishop Neophytos had violated the quarantine law after he held mass in a church in Peristerona on Sunday with the...
Coronavirus: Covid-19 keeps relics of Jesus’ friend Lazarus behind closed doors
By Michele Kambas Eight days before Orthodox Easter each year, a casket containing remains of Jesus’s friend Lazarus is carried through the streets of Larnaca,...
Coronavirus: Archbishop says Church will follow restrictions ‘to the letter’
Archbishop Chrysostomos on Thursday gave reassurance that the Church would make sure that all measures aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus would be followed...
Coronavirus: Limassol bishop tries to sidestep Tuesday’s lockdown, changes mass time
Limassol Bishop Athanasios sparked a social media outrage on Tuesday after he changed the time of church services to avoid violating a ban that comes...
Church should have no role in March 25 celebrations
Far from leading the Greek revolution, the church opposed it By George Koumoullis IN a few days we will be marking the anniversary of the...
Coronavirus: Church to allow only 10 people at a time into services
Archbishop Chrysostomos has instructed priests to only allow 10 people at a time inside a church and lock the doors if more showed up. In...
Coronavirus: Attendance at Sunday church service plummets
FEW churchgoers appeared to attend the weekly service on Sunday, making police action to enforce the government decree limiting indoor public gatherings to 75 people...
