Founder of the Temple of Pan in Arcadia Arrested – Protest on March 8

The struggle successful Arcadia betwixt the Church and the believers of the Twelve Olympian Gods continues to rage.

The archetypal temple dedicated to Zeus and Pan is being built connected a 150-acre backstage crippled of onshore successful Gortynia, Arcadia, adjacent the colony of Kalliani. In January, it was announced that the temple would beryllium for liturgical purposes and invited those who judge successful the past Greek religion.

However, Metropolitan Nikiforos of Gortynos and Megalopolis is opposed to the instauration of this temple. In fact, helium issued a statement, saying, “This news, which has already provoked discussions and reactions, requires our cautious effect arsenic the Church of the Living God.”

“This circumstantial action, which attempts to reconstruct practices and perceptions of a religiosity of bygone eras, causes america sadness and concern. It is not a instrumentality to a agleam and glorious past, arsenic its followers claim, but a regression to a acheronian world, dominated by quality passions and demonic works,” the Metropolitan continued.

“It is not a Greek phenomenon, but a overseas one, which attempts to beryllium forcibly transplanted into Greek reality. Our glorious ancestors had themselves realized the inadequacy of their religion and were searching for thing better, which they discovered successful Jesus Christ,” the connection added, among different things.

Police arrested Evangelos Bexis, an archaeologist and the supervisor of the instauration of the Temple of Pan, connected February 24 pursuing an bid from the prosecutor. Bexis revealed connected societal media that the authoritative decided to merchandise him but that a proceedings day would beryllium scheduled.

In a video taken successful beforehand of the temple dedicated to Pan successful Kalliani, Bexis says helium was arrested for being successful complaint of the operation and told that the tract indispensable beryllium closed off.

Among different things, helium stressed successful a video, “It is an enactment of aggression that cannot beryllium ignored. We are astatine warfare successful each way. They ordered us, successful a authorities wherever we are expected to person spiritual freedom, that connected March 8th we should not observe successful grant of our Gods due to the fact that we are illegal.”

“I told the police, ‘we volition celebrate, travel and apprehension me.’ On March 8th, thing immense volition happen, and I privation you each to beryllium here. They volition not halt us. We are many, we are strong, we indispensable travel forward,” the archaeologist added.

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