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Demonstration
When nations are not made accountable for their crimes, their action ceases to be a crime 23 Jul 2013 In a piece describing his stay in Cyprus, Noble Prize winning poet Odysseus Elytis spoke of the...
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Holy Week
16 Apr 2014 DEAN KALIMNIOU “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose...
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ORTHODOXY AND SUICIDE
A few decades ago, a distant relative here in Melbourne committed suicide. At the time, he was afflicted by a debilitating mental illness that altered his perception of reality. His death was...
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Cyprus Saturation
The photographs accompanying this diatribe were taken last year by Turkish photographer Bastermur Bilal. They depict a couple of semi-nude stick figures attempting to assume languid attitudes of...
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CONVERT OR DIE!
This poor innocent creature, a victim of the tragedy that is post Saddam Hussein Iraq, symbolises very clearly what Iraqis, especially Christians, have come to suffer and endure daily. He was warned...
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Dormition of the Theotokos
Unlike the Resurrection of Christ, the mysterious character of Mary’s death, burial and ascension were not the subject of apostolic teachings extant but were preserved in the oral tradition of the...
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GARDENING BYZANTIUM
15 Jul 2014 – Neos Kosmos Newspaper “Τα διαφόροις των παλαιών περί τε γεωργίας και επιμέλειας φυτών και σπορίμων και ετέρων πολλών χρήσιμων ειρημένα συλλέξας εις εν, τουτί το βιβλίον συντέθεικα.” –...
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Tamata (Offerings)
The recent theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewellery and other votive items from the monastery of Panayia Kamariani shocked members of the Greek community DEAN KALIMNIOU – 25 Aug...
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The Third Pappou (Grandfather): Icon of a true Greek Orthodox Christian...
When pappou Manoli’s son discovered the cache of five dollar notes in his father’s shaving equipment, he contrived of a fitting way to ensure his father’s legacy DEAN KALIMNIOU – Neos Kosmos – 8 Sep...
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Diatribe: Saint Demetrios
Saint Demetrios’ popularity in the Orthodox faith as a warrior saint is strange considering the Church’s pacifist teachings Dean Kalimniou – Neos Kosmos – 20 Oct 2014 The traditional iconography...
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Pappou Niko’s eternal exile
“It was all for nothing, all my struggles, all my privations and I’m alone. I try to figure out the reason for this and each time, I am more and more at a loss.” – Nikos Syrmos DEAN KALIMNIOU My...
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The Three Hierarchs
Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and renowned John of the Golden Speech, patron saints of all Orthodox students DEAN KALIMNIOU – NEOS KOSMOS ENGLISH EDITION – 31 JANUARY 2015 In the top drawer...
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The 100th anniversary of the liberation of Epirus
“The Greeks of Epirus are in desperate straits. They are persecuted, tortured, robbed, beaten and conspired against. Greeks are murdered daily in the street…“ DEAN KALIMNIOU Neos Kosmos Newspaper –...
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Our parade of the Shrine
“This was no militaristic or nationalistic parade. Instead, it had the feel of a street party,” says Dean Kalimniou Dean Kalimniou – 13 Apr 2015 Every year while attending the Greek community’s annual...
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Orlov: First draft at a Greek revolution
“The Orlov rebellion … was absurd in conception, devoid of genuine libertarian teleology and brutal and chaotic in execution.” – J. C Alexander Dean Kalimniou – 8 Apr 2015 In the popular Greek...
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The Byzantines of Cornwall
In the far off land, a monument in the Landulph parish church commemorates the Palaeologus family Dean Kalymniou – 20 Apr 2015 In the common consciousness of the Greeks, Byzantium and its last ruling...
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Recognising genocide
Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world – Ann Clwyd Dean Kalimniou – 22 May 2013 The proud flag of Anatolia’s and Thrace’s Greeks, a peoples who have been exterminated by successive...
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Anzac Parade
The whole Gallipoli campaign was fought in an area where 35,000 Greek people were forcibly removed from their homes and many were killed 4 May 2015 “Australian soldiers, sailors and pilots saw columns...
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Beyond Pontus
The principality of Theodoro 11 May 2015 Of the Empire of Trebizond or Trapezous, much has been written. As a multi-ethnic state situated in the Pontic region of the southern Black Sea, it was the...
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Waiting for the clouds
20 May 2015 Dean Kalimniou A Pontian friend relates a remarkable story whereby she once employed the assistance of a Turkish hairdresser in suburban north-west Melbourne for the purpose of taming her...
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