Lawsuit filed after Athens crowd desecrates street preacher’s icon and cross

Athens, March 25, 2021

Photo: romfea.gr Photo: romfea.gr     

Lawyers Konstantina Kakogianni and Eleni Karniati have filed a lawsuit with the Athens Prosecutor’s Office for the desecration of an icon of the Theotokos and a cross during a rally in Athens earlier this month.

On March 8, a group of protestors supporting a convicted terrorist violently attacked a man who was carrying an icon of the Theotokos and a hand cross and preaching the Orthodox faith. They knocked his icon and cross to the ground, trampled on the icon, and later tore it into pieces.

The lawsuit emphasizes the blatant violation of the rule of law through the violation of a fundamental individual right, such as the right of religious freedom, reports Romfea.

The suit also notes that the attack is divisive to society, as an assault on the core dogmas of the Greek Orthodox faith:

The Most Holy Theotokos, as the mother of Jesus Christ, is the core of one of the doctrines of the Orthodox Church, the mystery of the Divine Incarnation of the Son and Word of God, as demonstrated in the Bible and as extensively analyzed by the Church Fathers. Furthermore, the Cross depicts another aspect of the Divine Economy for the salvation of man—the Crucifixion of Christ, and for this reason, the Cross holds a dominant position, as a symbol, in the Holy Mysteries of the Orthodox Church.

The national Greek Orthodox Youth movement later found the man and gifted him a new icon.

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3/25/2021

Comments
ACatharina3/26/2021 9:48 am
But look at the crowd, they're just teenagers... Wouldn't it be better to show them the other cheek and pinpoint their contradicting words and actions, rather than fill a lawsuit? The lawsuit will drive them away from Church even further and prove their deformed opinions about Christians.
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