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The Orthodox Christian News Service
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by Athens News Agency,
December 15, 2003
Greek-Americans begin fund-raising drive for local Greek Orthodox Church
By P. Panagiotou
NEW YORK - Greek-American Alexandros Spanos, an expatriate businessman based in California, pledged to give 10 million dollars toward a fund-raising drive begun by the local Greek expatriate community, which hopes to raise 100 million dollars for the Greek-Orthodox Church of America in the space of five years.
The initiative was begun by America Archbishop Dimitrios in order to ''create reserve funds solely for the purpose of funding National Deaconries and the foundations of the Greek Orthodox Archepiscopate of America''.