I think the problem of religious instruction in schools is huge. I didn’t want my son to attend the so-called optional religious classes and had no problem with declaring him an atheist or even a Martian. But what I heard was that he would be condemned to sitting in the corridor while those classes were held, given the lack of a communal room for pupils in state schools or even libraries. I think that’s outrageous. I’ve also been looking for something I heard about years ago — that the Church opposed the introduction of computer literacy in schools because that would’ve meant fewer hours for religious instruction. Does anyone remember that?

[...] I wrote a while back about the issue of religious intolerance and freedom in Greece. Finally, a law has been passed to allow cremation to take place. However, the law only applies to people whose religion allows it. Orthodox christians will not be able to request cremation because the Church of Greece says that their traditions only allows for burial. The law is good news for Muslims who previously had to send the deceased loved ones abroad for cremation. At the moment, of course there are no cremation facilities in Greece but I assume arrangements are being made to build them. [...]

Thank you for your feedback ellasdevil.
What I’m looking for is information about the building of a Greek Orthodox church in the vicinity to prevent the building of the mosque.
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I remember reading an article (I think) in one of the magazines that you find inside the Sunday newspapers. There have been many different plans to build a mosque in Athens (the only capital city in the EU not to have one) but of course wherever they planned to build it. The local residents didn’t like it. They had the “not in my back yard” attitude. The last I heard about it, they were going to build this mosque outside of Athens but the planned location was on the flight path to Eleftherios Venizelos airport which caused members of the Church to say “We do not think this is right. People flying into Athens may think they are flying into a moslem country and that isn’t right”. And the plan got put on ice.