Word: orthodox
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...press ahead with much-needed reforms. He also pledged to assist thousands of fire victims, shunning mention of Papandreou, who billed the vote "a referendum on the right" at the end of a month-long campaign. Karamanlis also made no mention of Georgios Karatzaferis, the leader of the Popular Orthodox Rally, or LAOS, that won over 3% of the vote, becoming the first far-right populist party to enter the Greek parliament since the tumultuous fall of a military junta the ruled the country between 1967 and 1974. A former conservative stalwart whom Karamanlis expelled in 2000 for his extremist...
...Benefiting from the backlash against Greece's two main parties, the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) party is expected to break the three percent threshold needed to enter the country's 300-seat parliament. Georgios Karatzaferis founded the LAOS after Karamanlis expelled him from the New Democracy party for his extreme views. A 2005 U.S. State Department report on anti-Semitism cited Karatzaferis as "regularly attributing negative events involving Greece to Jewish plots. He denounced politicians with Jewish origins and claims that Jews were behind the Sept. 11 attacks." The party has attracted droves of voters, however, though many...
...very different kind of concert will turn the established image of the country on its head. The date may sound inauspicious to some, but in keeping with its ancient roots, Ethiopia runs by an antiquated calendar, a modified version of the Julian calendar which the heads of the Orthodox Ethiopian church claim is the true count of time since Christ was born. By its reckoning, the 3rd millennium arrives on Sept. 12, 2007 - making Sept. 11 this year New Year...
...doubts about the authenticity of the remains lingered to such an extent that the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) performed the funeral rites without ever mentioning their names; the church simply prayed for innocent victims. The Romanov heirs are split on this, too: some of them share the doubts about the remains? authenticity. The missing two bodies have also inspired rumors that one or more of the Romanov children escaped execution, most famously depicted in the 1956 Ingrid Bergman film Anastasia and in real life by a Polish woman named Anna Anderson who falsely claimed to be Princess Anastasia...
...enough to project it into her afterlife. "If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of 'darkness.' I will continually be absent from Heaven - to [light] the light of those in darkness on earth," she wrote in 1962. Theologically, this is a bit odd since most orthodox Christianity defines heaven as God's eternal presence and doesn't really provide for regular no-shows at the heavenly feast. But it is, Kolodiejchuk suggests, her most moving statement, since the sacrifice involved is infinite. "When she wrote, 'I am willing to suffer ... for all eternity, if this...