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Jenny Mikakos pleads with Archbishop Makarios to protect Australia’s Greek community
Victoria’s Health Minister Jenny Mikakos sent a letter to Archbishop Makarios prior to the Archbishop’s communique on Monday night which told congregations that it is acceptable to take the sacrament …
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Communion conundrum, Orthodoxy and Archbishop Makarios’ communique
If you are an average Greek Orthodox Christian in Australia, chances are that you will on average, take communion, only once a year, just before Easter. It seems therefore strange …
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Church, communion, coronavirus conundrum
If you are an average Greek Orthodox Christian in Australia, chances are that you will on average, take communion, only once a year, just before Easter. It seems therefore strange …
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Coronavirus pandemic medical advice: How to prepare, what to expect and when it will end
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has now declared Coronovirus infection is causing a pandemic. A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease. The virus is airborne and is …
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Coronavirus and social media memes go viral over the internet
As Covid-19 escalates, social media has been abuzz with all manner of posts related to coronavirus. One popular post being shared across social media purports to link the disease with …
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The Greek name is no ordinary name
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” William Shakespeare,”Romeo and Juliet”. Shakespeare and Juliet were wrong. A name is …
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‘Save Greece and Europe from Turkish invasion’, a petition to Donald Trump
A petition has been started under the name of Kostas Patriotis on change.org, titled ‘Save Greece and Europe from Turkish invasion’. There were nearly 5,000 signatures by Wednesday afternoon. The …
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Opinion: Coronavirus, faith and Orthodoxy
Imagine you’re at a cafe or restaurant and you order a bottle of wine. The waiter brings over the wine and grabs a glass from the nearby table that has …
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‘We stand by Greece and support the country’
The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) has expressed its support for Greece and by extension the European Union in its joint position on the forced expulsion of refugees and economic …
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Letter: RIP Spyros Korosidis, a man who never sought great honours but earned them nonetheless
As my father said to me when he heard that Spyros Korosidis had died, we have lost a living legend within our community. A man who never sought great honours …