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How the world sees Greece
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Greece’s Neo-Nazi Party Gets OK to Participate in EU Vote
Greece’s leading neo-Nazi group, Golden Dawn, has been given the go-ahead by the country’s highest court to participate in the upcoming European Union parliament elections, Agence France-Presse reported. A lawyer for Golden Dawn announced the news over ...
Conchita Wurst Condemned By Russian Orthodox Church After Eurovision Win
MOSCOW (RNS) A spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church strongly denounced the Eurovision Song Contest’s winner, saying it was a sign of the world’s moral decline and part of an effort to “reinforce new cultural norms.”
Conchita Wurst, the stage name of a former band singer from Austria named Tom Neuwirth, won the 59th installment of the competition, held this year in Copenhagen, with a song titled “Rise Like a Phoenix,” which she performed early Sunday (May 11) as a bearded woman in a form-fitting gold dress.
The Eurovision contest draws well over 100 million viewers annually, and the contest has become a point of national pride in Russia, which began competing in the 1990s.
“The process of the legalization of that to which the Bible refers to as nothing less than an abomination is already long not news in the contemporary world,” Vladimir Legoyda, chairman of the church’s information department, told the Interfax news agency. “Unfortunately, the legal and cultural spheres are moving in a parallel direction, to which the results of this competition bear witness.”
Legoyda said the result of the competition was “yet one more step in the rejection of the Christian identity of European culture.”
On Monday (May 12), Vitaly Milonov, a municipal legislator in St. Petersburg known for his anti-gay activism, appealed to Russia’s culture ministry to ban any future performances in Russia by Wurst.
Other Russian commentators pointed out that Russia’s pop-music scene is known for flamboyant performers who bend gender lines.
Both the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate have been positioning Russia as a moral bastion in contrast to Europe and the United States.
The Moscow Patriarchate has condemned the legalization of same-sex marriage in European countries and defended anti-gay legislation in Russia, saying it is meant to protect minors.
Last June, speaking at a monastery atop Mount Athos in Greece, Patriarch Kirill I, the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, warned that moral relativity is “that ground on which only the Antichrist can come” and singled out sexual morality as a sign of relativism.
“We see what is happening today,” he said. “Same-sex marriages, euthanasia, abortion — that which was always regarded as evil from the point of view of divine truth is no longer considered evil.”
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Russian church’s Department of External Church Relations, said at a conference in Moscow in December that the West was destroying marriage as “the God-created union of man and woman” and warned that countries that are drawn into Europe’s orbit would be forced to accept alien values, in a clear reference to Ukraine.
In April, a controversial group of Russian Orthodox youth activists raided the screening of a documentary film about LGBT teenagers, who are often driven to suicide by their sense of isolation in Russia.
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How The Human Brain Creates Visions Of God
(This wasn’t a snarky commentary on their politicians, either—they considered everyone’s brain useless.) Most Greek thinkers also elevated the heart to the body’s...
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Assemblywoman Malliotakis joins Greek-American leaders in condemning neo ...
Aljazeera.comAssemblywoman Malliotakis joins Greek-American leaders in condemning neo ...SILive.comSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Prominent Greek-Americans, including GOP Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, are joining the World Jewish Congress in speaking out against Golden Dawn, a Greek neo-Nazi party that is looking to win representation in the ...Greek court clears Golden Dawn for EU voteAljazeera.comGreek neo-Nazi party allowed to participate in EU electionsRT (blog)Greek Supreme Court allows Golden Dawn to run in European electionsKathimeriniGreek Reporter -GlobalPostall 59 news articles »
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Greece crisis 'thwarts' Turkish cruise growth
Hurriyet Daily NewsGreece crisis 'thwarts' Turkish cruise growthHurriyet Daily NewsThe Turkish cruise sector's thriving growth is being thwarted by problems in the ports of neighboring Greece, according to a report by the country's top tourism sector body, which predicts that the sector's growth rate will slow to around 2 percent ...
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Court orders Turkey to pay Cyprus over Invasion
DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Europe’s top human rights court in its largest ever judgment ordered Turkey on Monday to pay 90 million euros ($123 million) to Cyprus for its 1974 invasion and the island’s subsequent division. The decision from the European Court of Human Rights said the passage of time did not erase Turkey’s […]
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Annual Greek festival in Piscataway highlights traditional food, fun and filoxenia
Evangelia Manolakis, left and Niky Gerondelis roll out dough for Diples pastry in preparation for the upcoming festival. Members of St. George Greek Orthodox Church are busy gearing up for the 41st Annual Greek Festival taking place May 16-18.
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