Following a police investigation, 20 people, including a priest, will be charged with breaking the lockdown decree for allegedly attending a Church service in Erimi in the southwestern Limassol District on St. George’s Day, April 23.
The protection of the faithful is of utmost importance, but a return to Church services can be implemented gradually, His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus believes.
His Eminence Archbishop Jonah of Obukhov of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, abbot of Holy Trinity-St. Jonas Monastery in Kiev and head of the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs, has fully recovered from the coronavirus.
The churches will also open two weeks earlier, on May 4, for parishioners to visit for individual prayers, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced yesterday.
The Patriarchate offers a wide variety of charitable assistance to those affected by the pandemic, especially to the elderly, poor, sick, disabled, and those temporarily in isolation and quarantine.