PERSECUTION OF ESPHIGMENOU MONASTERY
Yesterday Greek police stationed on Mount Athos arrested Fr. Gregory of Esphigmenou Monastery. He was then removed from Mount Athos. Fr. Gregory is one of the leading fathers of Esphigmenou...
View ArticleEsphigmenou: Abbot and 13 monks sentenced to prison
(romfea.gr) Today, April 6, 2011 a three-member Court of Appeal of Thessaloniki, by unanimous decision, condemned fourteen leaders of the occupation of Holy Esphigmenou led by their leader, Methodius...
View ArticleGreek Government Continues Siege of Esphigmenou
Mt. Athos, Greece, September 24, 2012–Greek foreign minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, has ordered special riot police MAT and EKAM (noted for their use in the suppression of Greek protestors and...
View ArticleMore Ecumenism from the ‘Patriarchates’
As noted by the website of the Ecumenical Patriarchate “On Thursday, October 11, 2012, an Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Conference for the 10th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches to take...
View ArticleSerbian Patriarchate Hosts Conference on St. Maximus the Confessor
In a rather interesting conference, the memory and writings of St. Maximus the Confessor are being celebrated and lauded by the Serbian Patriarchate and others. St. Maximus was a Father who stood up...
View ArticleNew Calendarist Metropolitan of Komotini Greece Gives Qu’ran as Gift
Reported on April 15th (Source) The trans-religious syncretism between Islam and World Orthodoxy seems to be very prevalent in the Greek speaking world. Noted is the move by the new calendar State...
View ArticleARMED GREEK POLICE PLAN TO FORCIBLY REMOVE PEACEFUL MONKS
Note: Friends of Espighmenou is now on Twitter, follow them for real time updates. Pls pray 4 the peaceful monks @Esphigmenou Monastery on Mt. Athos — surrounded by police who plan to illegally remove...
View ArticleEsphigmenou Responds: No “Bombs” Were Thrown!
July 29, 2013 After media reports that Esphigmenou monks at the Karyes had supposedly thrown petrol bombs, friends of Esphigmenou monastery respond that such is not the case. A video is provided of...
View ArticleMonk Arrested For Bringing Food to Esphigmenou Monks
August 2, 2013 In the light of recent events, including the years of siege, as well the increasing the presence of Greek police, and the attacks on the Karyes Office of Esphigmenou (which including a...
View ArticleLetter from Esphigmenou Monastery to Greek Government
September 22, 2014 (Source: http://esfigmenou.blogspot.com) Originally reported on Sept. 16 Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou Athos September 16, 2014 Your Excellency, Mr. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras...
View ArticleEsphigmenou: Police Take Apartment Used as a Hostel
(Source: The Guardian) Dozens of Greek police have taken part in an operation to clear an apartment used as a hostel by a rebel monastery whose monks have been declared schismatic by the Orthodox...
View ArticleGOC-K Press Release on Greek Police Seizing Esphigmenou Buildings in...
November 05, 2014 (Source: NFTU: Metropolitan Gerontios of Pireaus, the spokesman for the GOC-K Synod, has commented on the recent seizures of Esphigmenou properties in Thessalonika. The Ecumenical...
View ArticleIn Recent Raid on Esphigmenou Hostel Greek Police Arrest Monk Dying of Cancer
November 11, 2014 (Source: http://www.esphigmenou.com/) Originally reported on November 01 NFTU: All thanks to the ‘loving’ Ecumenical Patriarchate and the ‘tolerant’ New Calendar Church of Greece....
View ArticleArchimandrite Methodius of Esphigmenou: “We suffer patiently the terror of...
November 15, 2014 (Source: http://esfigmenou.blogspot.com) Originally reported on November 05 NFTU: The reason Holy Ascension Monastery (commonly called “Esphigmenou”) is persecuted not because they...
View ArticleBreaking: Esphigmenou Vindicated?
The following is an Open Letter and has been written, briefly and without full translation the letter says that: Therefore, we are obliged and we implement the I. Rules of our Church, the Council’s...
View ArticleAbbot Methodius of Esphigmenou Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
Source THESSALONIKI, GREECE — A monk and the abbot of a Mt. Athos monastery deemed schismatic by the Greek Orthodox church have been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison by a court in this...
View ArticlePatriarch Bartholomew: There will be common observance of relations with...
November 19, 2014 (Source: http://www.patriarchate.org) NFTU Editor: So, from now on, Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew have accepted to have a yearly ‘common observance’, with official visits....
View ArticleIt’s 2020, and they are STILL persecuting the Monastery of Esphigmenou
Press Release (esphigmenou.com): GREEK GOVERNMENT CONTINUES PERSECUTION OF ESPHIGMENOU MONKS – MOVES TO FORCE THEM OUT OF THEIR OWN MONASTERY Call Upon our fellow Christians and International Human...
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