With tears and applause the audience welcomed the decision of an Athens criminal court to acquit all 14 defendants charged in connection with a property swap between the Vatopedi Monastery in the Mount Athos monastic community in northern Greece and the Greek state. The abbot of the Vatopedi monastery, Ephraim, and a monk, Arsenios, were … The post Court acquits all defendants in Vatopedi Monastery land swap appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.