The arrest of Abbot Efraim on Mount Athos.
Abbot Efraim, the head of the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, has been arrested for money laundering and embezzlement in connection with a land swap deal that has cost the government many millions of Euros. This is a big deal. I don’t know whether or not he is guilty. I do know from experience not to accept at face value everything that the hierarchy of the Orthodox Church claims about the operations of their institution. But on the other hand, the allegations that they make here about the Greek government’s motives also have the appearance of being entirely plausible.
There could be two reasons behind Abbot Ephraim’s arrest. One is that the EU has now been insisting for a long time that the Athos monasteries should be stripped of their special status and subordinated to the Greek government to a greater extent. The second reason is that some people in Europe are unhappy about the growing influence of Russians in Greece.
Here are a number of further articles on this incident.
A Hagiorite Monk Is Being Sent To Prison For ‘Accusations’ They Cannot Prove!
The Holy Community of Mount Athos Stands By Elder Ephraim of Vatopaidi
Guardian of Holy Virgin’s Belt from Mt. Athos Decides To Go To Jail
Greek Abbot Jailed Pending Trial Over Land Scandal Probe That Cost Ministers Their Jobs
Cypriot Abbot To Be Held Behind Bars in Greece
Photos of Elder Ephraim Leaving Mount Athos
Photos and Video of Protests Supporting Elder Ephraim
Russian Orthodox Rise in Defense of Arrested Vatopedi Monk
Patriarch Kirill Asks Greek President To Release Vatopedi Monastery Superior From Custody
Vatopedi Monk in Jail as Minister Warns ‘Meddlers’
Greece Jails Abbot Ephraim in Mount Athos Fraud Case
Father Ephraim – Prisoner of Cell 2 in the Koridallos Prison
Congratulate with Christmas by sending a postcard to his father in jail for Ephraim to the address on the website at the link http://pravera.ru/index/pozdravit_s_rozhdestvom_khristovym_arkhimandrita_efrema_igumena_vatopedskogo_monastyrja/0-229
Ζητωτές Παλαμά
πρόδοσαν Ελληνισμό στον σλαβομονγολισμό με ανατολίτηκη δαιμονία
ησυχασμο και έσφαξαν αριστοκρατία Θεσσαλονίκης να ιδρυσουν
οβσηνα σλαβοκουμουνιάς! Εστησαν σπιούνο σφετεριστή Καντακουζινό
με σλαβομονγολικά στρατεύματα, αξανοίγοντας θηρες δια τουρκοκρατία.
Τοήνβης έδειξε ότι η Ζηλωτή φορολογία έπιεσε αγρότες Μικράς Ασίας
να ασπασθούν τους Τούρκους.
ΠΥΡΚΑΓΙΑ ΠΥΡΚΑΓΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΜΟΝΑΣΤΙΡΙΑ
ΚΑΙ ΣΤΑ ΞΑΝΘΑ ΜΑΛΛΙΑ
ΚΑΙ ΓΑΛΑΝΑ ΜΑΤΙΑ
ΝΑ ΓΛΙΤΩΣΟΥΜΕ ΣΚΛΑΒΙΑ
ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΣΛΑΒΟΚΟΥΜΟΥΝΙΑ
We need to convert Greek churches to Latin speaking because all the Yuvrey who were born in Greece and pretended to convert under Mussolini come to practice their Greek and all the Slavs come trying to make us Tsarvrey. Why do you think the Russian letters for Tz and Sh are identical with the Hebrew? If the Greeks were such nationalists, why do they allow Southern Italy to call itself Magna Grece (http://magnagrece.blogspot.com/)? Because the Greeks know the Slavs are all coming from being Yuvrey with all their crazy bubble studies and fasting and stuff. We all want to be diverse, parochial, feudal and belong to the land and no Tsarvrey universalist globalizations. That is why we all marry Catholic Italian and stay away from Slav churches.