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...
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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...
Despite no ban, Tamasos Bishopric urges faithful to watch services on TV
The Tamasos Bishopric on Thursday urged the faithful who are unable to attend the church services to watch them on television or online as it...
Archbishop insists he gets to decide future of historic Nicosia mansion
The minister of communications and works said on Tuesday he was confident that consultations with Archbishop Chrysostomos would settle the future of the 18th century...
Archbishop will travel to US for medical treatment in New Year
Archbishop Chrysostomos is to leave for the US in the New Year for medical treatment, it was revealed on Sunday. The Church Primate, who has...
Archbishop calls Russian Patriarch’s attitude to Greek Church ‘unacceptable’
The Patriarch of Moscow’s move to overlook the name of Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece during a divine liturgy on Sunday was...
Prophecies about Cyprus dusted off after Turkey’s Syria invasion (Update)
In Cyprus, prophecies by holy men like Paisios always come back to Turkey By Evie Andreou Whether dismissed as absurd wishful thinking or accepted as...
House approves bill to subsidise salaries of priests
Parliament on Friday approved a government bill to subsidise the salaries of the clergy based on a so-called agreement struck between the state and the...
State urged to rescue Yeroskipou site from development
Members of the movement to rescue Paphos urged the government on Thursday to appropriate a piece of land slated for development by the Church, where...
Court upholds demolition order for private Paphos chapel
THE Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against the demolition of a chapel in Paphos built by a man on private land as an offering...
LGBTI community does not want ‘war’ with the Church, seeks coexistence
Accept LGBTI Cyprus is holding a workshop next month to discuss their issues vis-à-vis the Church with whom they do not want a ‘war’, they...
Minister defends state subsidy for village priests
The state subsidy for village priests’ salaries is not a commercial or investment agreement and will not be discontinued, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades told MPs...
Bishop’s anti-gay comments ‘blown out of proportion’ Archbishop says
Archbishop Chrysostomos said Friday the Holy Synod will not discuss insulting comments made by Morphou Bishop Neophytos about gays pending a decision by the attorney-general...
Cast-out theologian can only return to Church fold if remorseful
Archbishop Chrysostomos said Friday the Holy Synod would only consider rescinding a theologian’s excommunication if he expressed remorse. Theologian and former MP and MEP, Andreas...
Police to question Morphou bishop in coming days
Police investigators will be taking a statement from the bishop of Morphou in the next few days as part of a probe launched after he...
Archbishop says Russian church in the north ‘unacceptable’
Archbishop Chrysostomos said the presence of a self-proclaimed Russian Orthodox Church in the north is unacceptable but nothing can be done to remove it as...
Yeroskipou wants to swap land to save ancient site from development
Yeroskipou council hopes to persuade the authorities to swap a piece of land earmarked for development for another nearby to protect the site which is of...
Bishop of Chicago slams ‘shameful’ gay comments by Morphou counterpart
The Metropolitan Bishop of Chicago, Nathanael, has launched a scathing attack on Morphou Bishop Neophytos over his comments on homosexuality. Last month Neophytos went viral...
