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Volume 6 Number 32 - Tuesday, August 10th, 2004	A Publication of the ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LAITY

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Published by Ecclesia.gr, August 1, 2004

Archbishop Christodoulos on the Muslim Mosque in Athens

Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All of Greece kept his distance from the statements made by certain hierarchs who have expressed opposition to the construction of a Muslim mosque in Peania, Athens.

The head of the Greek Church stated characteristically that the Greek Church is democratic and every hierarch can freely state his position but the Church is bound only by the Holy Synod decisions.

The Archbishop stated that the position of the Greek Church is known and that the Church is in favor of the mosque in Athens for the Muslims to be able to perform their religious duties. He clarified, however, that the Greek Church is against the operation of an Islamic Studies Center in the prefecture of Attiki.

He said that the position of the Greek Church has been misunderstood and distorted by foreign mass media, which have maintained that the Greek Church wants to limit the religious freedom of the Muslims living in Greece, stressing that this is an effort to defame the Greek Church.

Regarding the place selected for the construction of the mosque, he said that local residents and authorities in Peania have reacted and the Greek state should take under serious consideration these objections.

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