What misery has befallen us once again. And I don\u2019t just mean the monks\u2019 scandal, the fraud involving miracles, or their romantic activities. I mainly refer to what follows. The leaked videos, letters, and dialogues, the statements by lawyers\u2026As if the scandal itself wasn\u2019t enough, the public has to be bombarded with juicy details to thoroughly disillusion them. It\u2019s as if these ecclesiastical scandals were some kind of election campaign, and the battle was for public opinion. Are the police and justice system treated differently in these cases?We are talking about common fraud, deception of citizens, and the extraction of money through false pretences, and it is the job of the police to investigate and uncover the truth.Well done to the Attorney General for appointing \u201cCriminal Investigators to conduct investigations in collaboration with the Police\u2019s Investigators regarding the potential commission of any criminal offences by any individual\u201d.We can only hope that the work of the investigators is not hindered by drawn-out procedures. Because we fail to understand why criminal investigators were appointed to this specific case and not others\u2014surely, the authorities must know something we don\u2019t. Perhaps it\u2019s due to the complexity of the issue. Anyway, as long as there\u2019s a result, that\u2019s all that matters. For the details that are coming to light seem to be an attempt at obfuscation rather than clarification.What conclusion can one draw when, on the one hand, they see a video of monks preparing the myrrh\u2014the sacred oil\u2014which will flow from the Cross and perform miracles, and on the other hand, the monks\u2019 lawyers release a testimony, allegedly from a pilgrim from Greece. This pilgrim supposedly went to the Monastery of Saint Abbakum and attests that their infant was crucified and, \u201cfor five days after, the baby took baths but smelled of myrrh at the crucifixion site\u201d. Quite the fragrant myron! They should sell the recipe to a perfume company and make a fortune.This pilgrim, then, claims that he saw the video of the myrrh\u2019s preparation and promptly travelled from Greece to provide this testimony to set the record straight. It\u2019s obvious that we\u2019ve been taken for a ride.Or take the other example. You see a monk in a video striking a woman, seemingly a cleaner, with a belt and ranting like a lunatic, only for the woman to subsequently claim that \u201cthe video is edited\u201d. How, exactly, was it edited, then? Wasn\u2019t she struck with a belt, and wasn\u2019t the monk having a nervous breakdown? \u201cThere was a misunderstanding, for which I was to blame,\u201d the woman says. \u201cNothing happened that left me with any injuries.\u201d Not only does she contradict what\u2019s clearly shown on camera, but she also takes responsibility for the incident. presumably to curry favour with the monk.After this, the Police state that if the woman has no complaints, the investigators cannot proceed regarding any potential offences arising from the video. The woman may have her reasons for not complaining, but the entire society has one, having witnessed a monk violently striking a woman. The state and the Church ought to have a complaint, too. The Police should be taking the lead in these investigations. After all, these are only the tip of the iceberg; there are much more serious crimes that the public is yet to learn about.ecclesiastical scandals. ecclesiastical scandals, criminal investigators, obfuscation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The text discusses a series of scandals involving monks, including fraud related to miracles, romantic activities, and other misconduct. It mentions leaked videos, letters, and dialogues that have become public, contributing to the scandal. The Attorney General has appointed criminal investigators to work with the police on investigating potential criminal offenses related to these incidents. The text also describes specific examples of alleged misconduct, including a video of monks preparing myrrh and another video showing a monk striking a woman. In the latter case, the woman later claimed the video was edited and took responsibility for the misunderstanding, leading the police to state they cannot proceed without a complaint from her. The text criticizes the handling of these scandals and expresses concern about the impact on public opinion and the potential for more serious crimes to be uncovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[580,1221,233,2100,3,1167,2099,1600,1059,747,487,1314,1342,582,591,1946,1150,1826,2101,634,184,1354,1607,759,1371,380,1944],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-attorney-general","tag-campaign","tag-church","tag-criminal-investigators","tag-cyprus","tag-draw","tag-ecclesiastical-scandals","tag-election","tag-fraud","tag-greece","tag-incidents","tag-injuries","tag-investigations","tag-justice","tag-lawyers","tag-monk","tag-monks","tag-myrrh","tag-obfuscation","tag-opinion","tag-police","tag-release","tag-saint-habakkuk","tag-scandal","tag-scandals","tag-us","tag-woman"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n