You are here:

Archive /

Greece

Greece

Global Stories
Kids
Eros
Women
Bangladesh
Shipbreaking Yard
India
E-waste backstage
Tanzania
Albino Talisman
Tunisia: A revolution for dignity
Sidi Bouzid
Redeyef
Kassrine - Thala
Tunis
Radhia Nasraoui
Lina Ben Mhenni
Murad Ben Cheikh
Hamma Hammemi
Sidi Bou Said, Sousse, Kairouan, Mahdia, El-jem, Matmata, Jerba
Portraits
Cesaria Evora
Maryam Rajavi
China
Adoption affairs
The different faces of Beijing
Beijing:Dog Market
Esthonia
The new face of Tallinn
Egypt
Cairo:Life in the Dead City
Cape Verde
The melodious archipelago
Greece
Fire
Natural Spas
Athens Riots
Evros: Migrants on the frontiers of EU
Orthodox Monasteries: The other side of a scandal
Addiction
Alchemists of Compassion - "KE.PE.P" Center for Nursing Children
Romà below Acropolis
Mentally ill next door
Mushroom safari in burned Greece
Fournoi : Lonesome in the Aegean Sea
Sithonia, Halkidiki
Rhodes: It is the world on an island
New Zealand
Aotearoa:Land of the White Cloud
Greece: Orthodox Monasteries: The other side of a scandal
“Decency and Humbleness” was the main cue of conservative government of K. Karamanlis in Greece. Two words taken straight from the principles of Christian Monasticism. Dramatic irony, one of the major political and financial scandal of the decade, arises when the government try to transfer - under outrageous terms - public property to the ownership of a famous monastery of Mt. Athos, Vatopedi. Decency and humbleness of the “Cathars” of the government party ends up in hell, a minister resigned, and more than thirty officials accused for this case. But the most effective consequence in Greek society was the humiliation of a large group of people who still believe in Orthodox Church and in the ideal of monasticism. Instead of Vatopedian abbot Efraim who became an expert of real estate, Greek monks and nuns continue to live their life in the simplicity and devotion of faith. We followed them to their monasteries and churches, to litanies and fests, to their own cells, trying to find the other side of a scandal: Living with spiritualism on our godless times. Text by Yorgos Xepapadakos. Photographs by Maro Kouri
separetor