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Two monks are set to be defrocked after allegedly being found with €800,000 in cash and captured on camera engaging in sexual activity with each other, it emerged on Thursday. According ...

Conservation work at the Ayios Sergios and Vakhos church in the village of Neta, in the Karpas peninsula, has been completed, Turkish Cypriot co-chairman of the Technical Committee on Cultural ...

A 44-year-old man was remanded in custody for six days on Friday, a day after he was arrested in relation to a string of church robberies in Paphos. The man ...

Police in Paphos on Thursday arrested a fourth man in connection with a spate of robberies at churches in the area. The man, aged 44, is the father of the 16-year-old ...

The three suspects who were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of carrying out a spate of robberies at churches in Paphos were all remanded in custody for eight days on ...

Police in Paphos on Tuesday made three arrests following a string of robberies at churches in the area. A total of ten break-ins had taken place at churches in the ...

Minister of Education Athena Michaelidou defended the screening of a homophobic video in a lyceum classroom, claiming it was in the framework of a pluralist approach to the subject. Teachers ...

An investigation has been launched by the education ministry on Tuesday into a homophobic video, shown to students at a local gymnasium. Speaking on CyBC’s morning radio, Commissioner for ...

Paphos police on Wednesday said they are looking for a 25-year-old man who is suspected of stealing over €4,500 from a church in Yeroskipou earlier this month. The man’s 24-year-old ...

The belt of the Virgin Mary, a religious artefact, was welcomed to Cyprus on Monday with the honour usually shown to a state official, even to a minister attending the ...

Cyprus’ Archbishop Georgios on Tuesday called on the UN to “take on its responsibilities” and protect the human rights of a people which has been suffering for years. His statements ...

Two people were caught in the act while stealing from a church donation box in Kato Pyrgos Tyllirias on Friday and were subsequently arrested. The village community leader Nikos Cleanthous ...

Paphos municipality has sent a letter to the Bishopric hoping to put an end to a long legal battle over the construction of a church in the public gardens that ...

The Cyprus Theological School is contributing to the state’s long-term goal of establishing Cyprus as a regional and international centre of higher education and research, President Nikos Christodoulides said ...

A fundraising campaign is underway to raise €40,000 for the maintenance of the Ayia Paraskevi church in Varosha. The fundraising campaign is being operated by the Famagusta bishopric, with the money ...

A Muslim crowd attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, vandalising several churches and setting scores of houses on fire after accusing two of its members of desecrating ...

Bishopric’s decision to freeze €8 million of the Paphos municipality’s funds has caused financial constraints to the local authority which makes multi-million payments, Mayor Phedonas Phedonos said on Tuesday. ...

The Holy Synod decided on Thursday to welcome back to the church controversial theologian Andreas Pitsillides, who had been excommunicated in 2015 over differing views with the church, then led by ...

And the church’s role in schools ensures it will stay that way By Fahri Zihni My late mother was born in the village of Tera, Paphos in 1924 to a ...

The European Union and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced on Thursday that conservation works have been completed at the church of Panagia Chryseleousa in the Kyrenia area and ...

The former Kiti bishop has spoken out against the Holy Synod decision to put him on forced sabbatical, decrying it as “void” and inconsiderate to his needs. His lawyer Yiannis ...

Yeroskipou municipality was on Wednesday fully geared to appeal a town planning decision greenlighting the construction of a hotel by the archbishopric, in an area brimming with antiquities. The municipality ...

Former Kiti bishop Chrysostomos will be put on a sabbatical until his appeal against a guilty sexual assault verdict concludes, the Holy Synod decided on Tuesday. Speaking after the meeting, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met with the Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Theodoros II on Monday, when they discussed a Hellenic centre being built in Cairo and humanitarian missions in the rest ...