{"id":568,"date":"2013-03-21T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxviews.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2015-06-30T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:17:18","slug":"cyprus-orthodox-church-offers-to-mortgage-church-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus Orthodox Church offers to mortgage church assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The head of Cyprus&#8217; Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, has offered to mortgage the church&#8217;s assets to get Cyprus out of its financial hole.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Church chooses to put itself in the position where it sells it autonomy to foreign interests &#8211; a move that can be hardly explained by sound Orthodox thinking and demonstrates profound lack of understanding of the nature of the problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/cyprus-church-pledges-bailout-funds\/story?id=18775337\">Cyprus Seeks Divine Intervention to Financial Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time this Patriarch shows he does not represent the Orthodox interests: <a href=\"http:\/\/eirenikon.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/20\/cypriot-orthodox-archbishop-on-anti-catholic-protests\/\">In 2010 he slammed religious groups who opposed the Pope\u2019s visit, warning that they put themselves outside the Church.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The head of Cyprus&#8217; Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, has offered to mortgage the church&#8217;s assets to get Cyprus out of its financial hole.&#8221; The Church chooses to put itself in the position where it sells it autonomy to foreign interests &#8211; a move that can be hardly explained by sound Orthodox thinking and demonstrates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}