Christos Telidis

Journalist Christos Telidis works for the Greek daily, To Ethnos, where he writes on social issues like immigration and religion.

Updated: 18 January 2017

By Christos Telidis

Greece : Church refuses alms to the state

In response to a major public spending deficit, Greece's socialist government wants to impose a tax on the assets of the country's Orthodox Church, the Church of Greece (CoG). But the powerful institution, which is Greece's largest property owner and a state within the state, has turned a deaf ear to the government's demands.

24 November 2009 – To Ethnos (Athens) 1 39