Blasphemous documentaries during the Orthodox Holy week
April 11, 2015. The Holy Saturday and while faithful were prepared to go to the Church to attend the celebration of the Resurrection; a blasphemous documentary was broadcasted from the TV Channel Sky (ΣΚΑΙ), in Greece. The documentary was presented as a scientific work against Christ and was trying to prove the “creation of a Messiah”, as reports The Holy Metropolis of Peiraus.
Metropolitan of Piraeus Serafim and metropolitan of Kalavryta Amvrosios reacted against the documentary. Metropolitan Serafim sent a personal letter to the owner of the Channel Sky (Mr. Giannis Alafouzos), in order to cancel the broadcasting of this documentary. The building of the channel is located in the territory of the spiritual jurisdiction of the dioceses of metropolitan Serafim. He asked politely the owner of the channel to respect the religious feelings of faithful during the Holy Week. Instead of a reply the channel ignored the petition of the metropolitan and provocatively it broadcasted the documentary. For this reason metropolitan Serafim announced that from now on, the diocese of Piraeus interrupts any charity cooperation with this TV channel and he gave in public a communiqué so as to inform the faithful.
Metropolitan of Kalavryta Amvrosios denounced this documentary in his personal blog. He posed very important questions: Where are the judges to apply the dispositions of the law against racism? Why there was no reaction from the audio-visual council which is responsible? He also underlined the important detail that the documentary was broadcasted at 22:00, time when all faithful were prepared to go to the Church. He continued by saying that the channel didn’t stop the night of the Holy Saturday. The day of Easter they broadcasted two documentaries: at 22:00 “The secret lives of the Apostles” and at 23:00: “Jesus, theories of conspiracy”. Metropolitan Amvrosios mentions that both the documentaries had a common and awful context: they called Saint Mary Magdalene as the “girlfriend” of our Lord. For this reason he urges people not to watch from now on any emission, documentary or film from this blasphemous channel.