eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 28 January 2003

Rebellious monks given deadline to clear out of Greek mountain monastery

Warsaw (ENI). A community of more than 100 Orthodox monks was facing a Tuesday deadline to vacate a monastery on Greece’s Mount Athos after defying the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarch, who is regarded as the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians. The monks of the Monastery of the Ascension at Esphigmenou were told by Bartholomeos I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, in a decree in mid-December to “leave the Athos peninsula without delay”, after a decades-long dispute. [403 words, ENI-03-0032]

Politicians pay hikes not justified, church leaders tell Zambian president

Harare (ENI). Church leaders in Zambia have taken President Levy Mwanawasa to task over recent increases in the salaries of government ministers and members of parliament. Church leaders who met Mwanawasa in January expressed their disappointment with the Zambian leader’s “failure to consider the prevailing poverty and famine in the country” before endorsing the pay rises, The (Zambia) Post newspaper reported. [360 words, ENI-03-0033]

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