Charity founder of ‘Kivotos’ and his wife charged with embezzlement
The founder and former head of children’s charity “Kivotos tou Kosmou” (Ark of the World), Father Antonios Papanikolaou and his wife were charged with financial misconduct on Thursday.
Following months of investigation into the financial management of the organization, prosecutor Ioannis Sevis has indicted Father Antonios and his wife Stamatia Georganti on charges of financial infidelity, embezzlement and money laundering.
Father Antonios and other staff members at the children’s charity are also charged with sexual abuse of minors and other financial crimes.
According to the charges, the wife allegedly committed infidelity and embezzlement, while the cleric is accused of moral complicity. Both face money laundering allegations.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/122849...ezzlement/
Here is an earlier news about them
Half-naked father Antonios bathes with children
Archbishop of Athens and All Hellas Jerome, followed by Greek law enforcement agencies, ordered an investigation into allegations of abuse related to the children’s charity “Kivotos tou Kosmou”, which is run by a representative of the Greek Orthodox clergy, Father Antonios Papanikolaou. What became known in just a couple of weeks shocked the Greek public.
Recall that the scandal that shakes and shocks Greece with constant new revelations erupted at the end of November this year, when the media reported on sexual and physical abuse of minors in a “charitable” organization and even forced, according to one of the minors “get an abortion” when she got pregnant.
Now 20 years old, the girl decided to make a confession that, being a minor, she spent 4 or 5 months locked up in one of the Kivotos premises. She was forbidden to communicate with anyone. And when her belly “grew”, they took her to the clinic to the doctors to find out what was wrong with her, and after learning about the pregnancy, they forced her to have an abortion.
Among other things, it turned out that endless streams of money literally poured into the pockets of Father Antonios, which he, with all the breadth of his soul, disposed of for the benefit of … “his beloved.”
https://en.rua.gr/2022/12/08/half-naked-...-children/
The founder and former head of children’s charity “Kivotos tou Kosmou” (Ark of the World), Father Antonios Papanikolaou and his wife were charged with financial misconduct on Thursday.
Following months of investigation into the financial management of the organization, prosecutor Ioannis Sevis has indicted Father Antonios and his wife Stamatia Georganti on charges of financial infidelity, embezzlement and money laundering.
Father Antonios and other staff members at the children’s charity are also charged with sexual abuse of minors and other financial crimes.
According to the charges, the wife allegedly committed infidelity and embezzlement, while the cleric is accused of moral complicity. Both face money laundering allegations.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/122849...ezzlement/
Here is an earlier news about them
Half-naked father Antonios bathes with children
Archbishop of Athens and All Hellas Jerome, followed by Greek law enforcement agencies, ordered an investigation into allegations of abuse related to the children’s charity “Kivotos tou Kosmou”, which is run by a representative of the Greek Orthodox clergy, Father Antonios Papanikolaou. What became known in just a couple of weeks shocked the Greek public.
Recall that the scandal that shakes and shocks Greece with constant new revelations erupted at the end of November this year, when the media reported on sexual and physical abuse of minors in a “charitable” organization and even forced, according to one of the minors “get an abortion” when she got pregnant.
Now 20 years old, the girl decided to make a confession that, being a minor, she spent 4 or 5 months locked up in one of the Kivotos premises. She was forbidden to communicate with anyone. And when her belly “grew”, they took her to the clinic to the doctors to find out what was wrong with her, and after learning about the pregnancy, they forced her to have an abortion.
Among other things, it turned out that endless streams of money literally poured into the pockets of Father Antonios, which he, with all the breadth of his soul, disposed of for the benefit of … “his beloved.”
https://en.rua.gr/2022/12/08/half-naked-...-children/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
