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		<title>EU investigating charges of destruction of mosaics in Turkish-occupied Cyprus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 7, 2020. In response to a written statement by Cypriot Euro-Deputy Costas Mavridis denouncing the deliberate abandonment and destruction of the mosaics of the Church of St. Eulalios in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, the relevant European Union commission has already taken up the matter, reports the Orthodoxia News Agency. The commission’s cultural heritage committee has already begun investigating the fate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox cemetery desecrated in Cyprus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 23, 2017. An act of vandalism was committed on the evening of Thursday, August 17, in a cemetery in the village of Kalavasos on the island of Cyprus, 37 miles south of the capital city of Nicosia. Tombstones of Orthodox Cypriots were subjected to desecration and destruction, many covered with Nazi and Satanic symbols, and some of the crosses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Cypriot families suing Church because sons became monks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2017 22:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 28, 2017 &#8211; Two local Greek Cypriot families have accused Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol, Abbot Epiphanios of Machairas Monastery, and the Cypriot Orthodox Church of pushing their sons into monasticism, suing them for a sum of 2 million euros ($2,271,200) as compensation for “moral damages,” reports Russian Athens. The judicial process, unusual for Orthodox countries, is set to begin on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyprus Ombudsman interferes religious issues of Orthodox Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 23, 2016. Head of the Cyprus Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, lashed out at the report submitted by Ombudsman Elisa Savvidou regarding the initiative of a state nursery school to take its students to worship holy relics at a parish church saying that she has overreached herself, as reports in-cyprus.com website. Speaking during Mega’s main news bulletin, the Archbishop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish Cypriot side restricts Orthodox church services in north</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 09:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 24, 2016. All Orthodox churches in the north will only be able to have religious ceremonies once a year from now on except for Apostolos Andreas, Apostolos Barnabas and Ayios Mamas following a new policy by the ‘foreign ministry’ in the north, as reports Cyprus Mail. Speaking to Turkish Cypriot newspaper Kibris, the ‘minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circular of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus protects the right of the Orthodox Christians on their conviction about the family</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 05:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 22, 2015. The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus decided to publish a Circular by taking clear position against the bill of Civil Partnership, which is prepared by the House of Representatives as the website of the Church reports. According to the Circular, the Church of Cyprus does not want to impose the Teaching of Christ to [...]]]></description>
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