Word: hadjiantoniou
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...years there have been signs that the bishops of orthodoxy would like to put a lid on their Evangelical brethren. A permit to build a new church in Neos Mylotopos, near Thessalonica, was flatly denied; the government has requisitioned some property of an Evangelical church, and Evangelical Leader George Hadjiantoniou was arrested for "proselytizing" by distributing selections from the Scriptures...
Early this year it was announced that the Evangelicals would not be represented at the Evanston Assembly of the World Council of Churches in August (as they had been at the Amsterdam Assembly in 1948). In a letter to the Christian Century, Evangelical Moderator Hadjiantoniou last week explained why. "We are facing just now a real state of persecution on the .part of the Greek Orthodox Church," wrote Hadjiantoniou. "What makes the situation still more sad and perplexing is that the initiative in this has been taken, in part at least, by people closely connected with the ecumenical movement, such...
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