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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-08-21
CONTENTS
[01] Papandreou in fire-ravaged Ilia prefecture
[02] Vartholomeos in Karyes
[01] Papandreou in fire-ravaged Ilia prefecture
Main opposition PASOK party leader George Papandreou visited the
fire-ravaged village of Artemida in the prefecture of Ilia, in the
western Peloponnese, on Thursday afternoon and talked with local
residents, while he was briefed on their condition a year after the
fires.
Papandreou also laid a white rose at the location where 12 people had
lost their lives during the wildfire and later he visited the residence
of a police officer who served at the party's head office in Athens and
whose sister had lost her life together with her three children in the
fire.
Later in the day, Papandreou will visit the Town Hall in Ancient
Olympia and deliver a cheque for 1.2 million euros, which amounts to a
third of the PASOK party's election subsidisation by the state budget,
an amount that he promised would be given to wildfire-ravaged regions
in Ilia.
In the evening, the PASOK leader will be attending a dinner with local
party cadres in the city of Amaliada.
[02] Vartholomeos in Karyes
Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos (Bartholomew I) was greeted with
Byzantine-style splendour and pageantry on Thursday in the
semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos. Vartholomeos
arrived to on the peninsula by ship and will remain until Aug. 26 in
order to attend celebrations for the 500-year anniversary of the
local monastery of Dionyssios, St. Nyfonos.
The Patriarch was accompanied by the Orthodox Metropolitan of
Austria and others. Later Vartholomeos was received in the Athos
capital of Karyes by delegates of the 20 monasteries of Mount
Athos.
Caption: Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos arrives on Thursday 21
August to Mount Athos.ANA-MPA/NIKITAS KOTSIARIS
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