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The Legal Service met with the police chief over the Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal on Thursday, to pour over the results of ongoing investigations. The meeting began at 10am and ...

A meeting at the state Legal Services will be held this week on the potential financial crimes and money laundering at the disgraced Osiou Avakoum monastery, sources confirmed to the ...

The two monks embroiled in a sex and cash scandal at Osiou Avakoum monastery may be called to testify before the church’s investigative committee, it was reported on Monday. ...

The town planning department has ordered a stop to any illegal construction for a monastery being built at the environmentally protected area at Ayia Napa’s Cape Greco site. Philenews ...

Thousands of people said that they are concerned about “fabricated miracles” within the echelons of the church in Cyprus, following the multiple scandals that have rocked the now infamous Osiou ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday that everything will be investigated at the Osiou Avakoum monastery, where scandals have been rife. Asked to comment on a statement by opposition Akel ...

Scandal continued to rock the church on Thursday, with a new video surfacing of a woman being beaten with a belt by a monk at the now notorious Osiou Avakoum ...

Members of the public were granted access by the United Nations to visit Agia Marina Chapel in Famagusta’s buffer zone on Green Monday, Deryneia municipality announced on Wednesday. “The ...

The ecclesiastical court will convene within the week over the two monks involved in an alleged sex and cash scandal, it emerged on Monday. Set to take place behind closed ...

The newly appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Cyprus, Bruno Varriano, is set to be ordained in Nicosia on Saturday. The ordainment comes two months after ...

The dark side of religious tourism and an extensive miracles racket operating out of the Saint Avakoum monastery in Fterikoudes were exposed on Monday, adding to the slew of scandals ...

Two monks embroilled in allegations of sex and almost €1 million in cash, have written to the president to say they are victims of corruption between the police and church. The ...

Financial crimes taking place at Osiou Avakoum monastery are being investigated by police, where two monks were allegedly found to be having sex and receiving thousands of euros in cash ...

Two monks are set to be defrocked after allegedly being found with €800,000 in cash and captured on camera engaging in sexual activity with each other, it emerged on Thursday. According ...

Conservation work at the Ayios Sergios and Vakhos church in the village of Neta, in the Karpas peninsula, has been completed, Turkish Cypriot co-chairman of the Technical Committee on Cultural ...

A 44-year-old man was remanded in custody for six days on Friday, a day after he was arrested in relation to a string of church robberies in Paphos. The man ...

Police in Paphos on Thursday arrested a fourth man in connection with a spate of robberies at churches in the area. The man, aged 44, is the father of the 16-year-old ...

The three suspects who were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of carrying out a spate of robberies at churches in Paphos were all remanded in custody for eight days on ...

Police in Paphos on Tuesday made three arrests following a string of robberies at churches in the area. A total of ten break-ins had taken place at churches in the ...

Minister of Education Athena Michaelidou defended the screening of a homophobic video in a lyceum classroom, claiming it was in the framework of a pluralist approach to the subject. Teachers ...

An investigation has been launched by the education ministry on Tuesday into a homophobic video, shown to students at a local gymnasium. Speaking on CyBC’s morning radio, Commissioner for ...

Paphos police on Wednesday said they are looking for a 25-year-old man who is suspected of stealing over €4,500 from a church in Yeroskipou earlier this month. The man’s 24-year-old ...

The belt of the Virgin Mary, a religious artefact, was welcomed to Cyprus on Monday with the honour usually shown to a state official, even to a minister attending the ...

Cyprus’ Archbishop Georgios on Tuesday called on the UN to “take on its responsibilities” and protect the human rights of a people which has been suffering for years. His statements ...