Greek Church Says TV Sullied Religion for Criticizing COVID-19 Defiance
(WorldNews Greece)

ATHENS - Greece’s powerful Holy Synod, which got the New Democracy government to back down and allow Epiphany Day celebrations during a COVID-19 second lockdown now is going after three TV stations who criticized the clerics. The leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church said the stations were guilty of “sullying religion” and appeared to be trying to move toward more serious accusations of blaming the media for blasphemy, said Germany’s state broadcaster Deutsche Welle, which didn’t identify them. The site noted that the media is reluctant to take on the church which even got Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to concede to allowing the celebrations that saw...