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stephan huller · 09-05-2013, 10:09 AM

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/orig...ai-unrest.html

mountainman · 09-05-2013, 08:27 PM

Patriarchate of Constantinople wages war against rebel monks on Mount Athos (07/29/2013)

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Monks at Esphigmenou monastery on Mount Athos have barricaded themselves inside the holy building in protest against Patriarch Bartholomew’s attempt to evict them. Police have been attacked with stones and Molotov bombs.

stephan huller · 09-05-2013, 08:30 PM

All of which reinforces that the monks don't take orders necessarily from Constantinople well.

Perspicuo · 09-05-2013, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by mountainman's link

Esphigmenou monastery is renowned for the war it has waged against the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople which it accuses of betraying the Orthodox Church by opening ecumenical dialogue with the Vatican. A war which has been going on since the 70s.

Ah, Christian αγάπη...

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