Greek Orthodox Church

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• Although no one can say for certain whether the gnarled old tree is the very one cited in the New Testament -- the local Greek Orthodox church venerates the remnant of another ancient tree, for example -- experts who have examined it say it may very well date back to the time of Jesus. Zacchaeus' Tree Now A Top Tourist Destination
• Everywhere people carry the prayer beads of the Greek Orthodox Church.
• The Greek Orthodox Church forbids funeral services for suicides unless the deceased was mentally ill.
• The Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus said it would not bury people taking their own lives, declaring suicides "the greatest sin.
• A vast majority of people in Greece belong to the Greek Orthodox Church.
• That governs, ordinarily, the arrangements of priests and bishops and archbishops within the Greek Orthodox Church.
• In 1967 demotic Greek was recognized as the official spoken and written language of Greece and is the language adopted for liturgical services by the Greek Orthodox church in the United States.